Cocktail therapy, originally referred to as "highly effective antiretroviral therapy" (HAART), was proposed by Chinese American scientist He Dayi on 1996. It treats AIDS through the combination of three or more antiviral drugs.

The application of cocktail therapy can reduce the drug resistance caused by single drug use, inhibit virus replication to the maximum extent, and restore some or all of the damaged immune function, thus delaying the progress of the disease, prolonging the life of patients and improving the quality of life.

Cocktail therapy mixes protease inhibitors with a variety of antiviral drugs to effectively control AIDS.

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Since the discovery of AIDS in the 1980s, although countries around the world have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop more than a dozen vaccines and nearly a hundred drugs, so far, no specific drugs have been found to treat AIDS. As a new weapon to treat AIDS, the "cocktail" therapy proposed by Professor He Dayi, a Chinese-American scientist, immediately caused a sensation in the whole medical field, was reported by the local media, and was highly praised by scientists all over the world. In view of his outstanding achievements, the famous American Time magazine chose him as the cover figure.

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