Table 4.

Initial and alternative antiretroviral therapy regimens in antiretroviral naïve HIV-infected patients

NRTI backbones		NNRTIs		Other third drugs
Recommended drugs		Recommended drug		Recommended drug
Tenofovir/emtricitabine	plus	Efavirenz	In case the patients cannot tolerate NNRTIs	Lopinavir/ritonavir
Tenofovir/lamivudine				Atazanavir/ritonavir
Alternative drugs		Alternative drugs
Abacavir + lamivudine		Rilpivirine
Zidovudine + lamivudine		Nevirapine

NRTI = Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.

NNRTIs = Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors.