Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Voice of America: Study: AIDS Drug Cuts Infections Among Drug Users

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
Study: AIDS Drug Cuts Infections Among Drug Users
Jun 12th 2013, 23:18

A new study shows that giving injecting drug users a daily AIDS drug cut the rate of HIV cases by nearly one half. The four-year study, published in the medical journal Lancet, was carried out on 2,400 drug users in Thailand -- addicts who inject themselves with drugs such as heroin. Among those who took a daily dose of the AIDS drug tenofovir, 17 developed HIV, compared to 33 patients who took a placebo. Previous tests with tenofovir were also successful in cutting the HIV rate among ...

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