This article was originally published as a Pharmacovigilance Initiative Safety Alert by the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/Aids on June 6, 2017.
Patient safety concern
Drug interactions between antiretroviral drugs and other medications can result in loss of therapeutic efficacy or drug toxicity. Selected proton pump inhibitors and inhaled corticosteroids recently became available as non-prescription products in BC. These, and other non-prescription medications, can have clinically important interactions with certain antiretroviral drugs, as summarized in the table below.