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Welcome to the Glossary of Commonly Used HIV/AIDS Terms! This feature provides a number of uses. Learn basic definitions, brush up on medical terms or provider lingo, or use the glossary as a reference guide in understanding the many acronyms found in the HIV/AIDS language. Whatever your needs, use the glossary to meet them.
Just click a letter below to see the terms listed.
| Needs Assessment | |
A process of collecting information about the needs of PLWH (both those receiving care and those not in care), identifying current resources (CARE Act and other) available to meet those needs, and determining what gaps in care exist. | |
| Night Sweat | |
Extreme sweating during sleep. Although they can occur with other conditions, night sweats are also a symptom of HIV disease. | |
| NNRTI (Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor, called " non-nuke ") | |
A class of antiretroviral agents (e.g., delavirdine, nevirapine, efavirenz) that stops HIV production by binding directly onto an enzyme (reverse transcriptase) in a CD4+ cell and preventing the conversion of HIV's RNA to DNA. | |