Quick Links: Skip to main page content Skip to Search Skip to Topics Menu Skip to Section Content Menu Skip to Common Links
  • Decrease font size
  • Return font size to normal
  • Increase font size
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

For Consumers

  • Print
  • Share
  • E-mail
-

Tenth anniversary of the first protease inhibitor approval

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the approval of the first protease inhibitor. In December of 1995, a then new class of drug for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in combination with other antiretroviral drugs represented an historical landmark in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Protease inhibitors helped establish a new treatment standard of triple combination therapy, significantly improving the lives and health of people living with HIV in the United States and around the world.

Richard Klein
HIV/AIDS Program Director
Office of Special Health Issues
Food and Drug Administration

Kimberly Struble
Division of Antiviral Drug Products
Food and Drug Administration

-
-