The pathophysiology of HIV infection plays an important role on how the 
virus attack the immune system and performed a clinical illness, explains the dynamics of viral reproduction, and finally explains where and how antiviral agents work.
The following document outlined these issues and discuss sections such course of HIV infection, acute or primary HIV infection, clinical manifestations of the acute retroviral syndrome, asymptomatic HIV disease, symptomatic HIV disease or acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome, the 1993 revised CDC case definitions of AIDS defining illnesses, transmission and early pathogenesis of infection, life cycle of HIV, cellular and viral dynamics of HIV infection, HIV specific immune responses, and mechanism of CD4 T-cell depletion and dysfunction.
Get and download completed HIV Pathophysiology, Where and How Antiviral Agents Work in pdf filetype (source: sfaetc.ucsf.edu).
