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

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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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