The drug-cocktail therapy, often referred to in Taiwan as "three-in-one," utilizes a mixture of two nucleoside analog drugs and one protease inhibitor. The former block the virus from invading the cells of the body, while the latter blocks the virus from leaving a cell once it has entered and reproduced.
所謂的雞尾酒療法俗稱「三合一」，是將兩種反轉錄抑制劑與一種蛋白抑制劑混合服用，前者用以阻止病毒進入人體細胞中，後者則阻止在細胞中複製完成的病毒離開細胞。