Voice of America: Less-Used HIV Treatment for African Children More Effective

Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

Less-Used HIV Treatment for African Children More Effective Apr 30th 2013, 23:21 The nearly 3 million children in sub-Saharan Africa who are living with HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- can be treated with one of two drugs to suppress the virus. Nevirapine is the drug of choice in most of those countries, because it costs less than the other - efavirenz - and is more widely available in a formula for children. However, a new study by researchers in Philadelphia and Botswana comparing the effectiveness of the two drugs found that initial treatment with efavirenz ...

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