The drug is the first in a new class of oral HIV medicines in more than a decade.

该药物是过去十多年来第一种能上市的口服治疗HIV新药。

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The first-in-class compound is a small molecule that blocks an early stage in the HIV lifecycle, the integration of the virus into host cell DNA. The drug formally was known as MK-0518.

该分类中第一个药物是一种阻断HIV病毒生活周期初期的小分子，避免病毒嵌入宿主细胞DNA，该药物过去称为MK-0518。

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It was approved in the USA last summer where it has become the only non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) - a class of HIV drug - to be included as a first line option in national guidelines.

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