Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) – Market Outlook, Epidemiology, Competitive Landscape, and Market Forecast Report – 2023 To 2033

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a lentivirus in the retrovirus family, exhibits remarkable heterogeneity due to high viral load, rapid turnover rates, an error-prone reverse transcriptase enzyme, and viral genome recombination within infected individuals. Retroviruses, characterized by extended incubation periods, like HIV, gradually lead to clinical latency and eventual onset of AIDS symptoms, inflicting severe damage on the immune system by exploiting CD4+ cells for replication, ultimately destroying these cells. Zoonotic transmissions from nonhuman primates to humans have spawned diverse HIV lineages: HIV-1 groups M, N, O, and P and HIV-2 groups A-H. HIV-1 group M, responsible for the global pandemic, shares a direct but independent origin from SIVcpz in chimpanzees. For treating HIV infection, the FDA has approved over two dozen antiretroviral drugs, which can be categorized into six groups: Nucleoside/Nucleotide Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs), Non-nucleoside Rev...