This document discusses the management of AIDS. It provides an outline covering the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in India, the HIV life cycle, clinical staging of HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral drugs and their mechanisms of action, guidelines for antiretroviral therapy, and post exposure prophylaxis. It then goes on to provide more detailed information on these topics, including statistics on HIV prevalence in India, the stages of natural HIV infection, WHO clinical staging criteria, classes of antiretroviral drugs and their mechanisms of action and side effects, recommended first-line antiretroviral regimens, and principles of antiretroviral therapy.