Low-cost Antibiotic Helps Kids With HIV
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The low-cost antibiotic Co-trimoxazole reduced mortality rates of HIV-positive children in Africa by nearly 50 percent, according to a new study in The Lancet.
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Giving HIV-positive children in Africa a daily dose of antibiotic could nearly halve the death rate.
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MONDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Antibiotics don't significantly reduce fluid buildup in young children with inner ear infections, a new analysis shows.
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Preventive antiobiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in children may make subsequent infections more likely to be resistant to drugs, a new study suggests.
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A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half. Tests on the new antibiotic drug in Zambia were so successful that the trial was halted early to make the drug available more quickly.
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Fifty-five children have been infected with the HIV virus in a paediatric hospital in Kazakhstan, likely through unsanitary use of needles, the health ministry said.
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A research team in Texas used a common antiretroviral drug to halt the transmission of HIV in lab mice engineered to behave like humans
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A new, low-cost drug is launched to combat malaria, aimed at children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - An experimental vaccine  reduced the presence of the HIV virus by at least 80 percent in  a Brazilian study of 18 infected patients released in the  journal Nature Medicine.
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A drug that helps prevent babies from catching the AIDS virus at birth can also protect them while nursing, researchers reported on Monday.
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NDORI, Kenya -- Giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women has long been celebrated as one of the few successful tactics in the war against AIDS in Africa. A single pill for a woman in labor, followed by a sip of syrup for her newborn baby, cuts HIV transmission rates by more than half, potent...
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NEW YORK  - The United Nations (news - web sites)&#39; Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites)) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS (news - web sites) virus as &quot;a
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GENEVA  - Children with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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The antibiotic-resistant germ that has infected several area teachers and some students is not just a concern for schools.
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Gene therapy can cure children born with a condition that knocks out their natural defences against infection, mounting evidence shows.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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Generic medications used to treat other disorders may also be able to stop a fatal viral infection that&#39;s nearly untreatable right now and that&#39;s become increasingly common among AIDS patients.