Cocktail Therapy
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CORE DEFINITION
Also known as 'Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy'. A single drug is prone to causing viral resistance, but if three different mechanisms of drugs are used simultaneously (cocktail), it is difficult for the virus to evolve resistance to all three at once, thus effectively suppressing it.
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Multi-pronged suppression. When solving stubborn problems (such as cancer, poverty, complex business competition), a single strategy (wonder drug) often fails. A 'cocktail therapy' must be adopted—combining multiple mechanisms (technology + law + public opinion) to block all escape routes of the opponent.
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'Cocktail therapy' (HAART) refers to the combined use of multiple antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV, inhibiting viral replication at different stages, both strongly reducing viral load and making it difficult for the virus to develop resistance due to multiple targets. It transforms 'single drug prone to resistance' into 'combined blockade'.
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