Special Drugs Could Save Children with HIV/AIDS
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A lack of drugs adapted to the needs of children with HIV/AIDS means that many of them are dying needlessly, says the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
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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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AIDS drugs that work through novel mechanisms and next-generation versions of existing drugs will soon offer new options for the growing number of patients whose disease no longer responds to current drugs.
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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.
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A low-cost antibiotic which has performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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Despite a lack of conclusive scientific evidence, some people are already using antiretrovirals as preventives, hoping to halt HIV transmission during risky sex
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People infected with the virus that causes AIDS will soon be able to take a once-a-day pill that combines three drugs in a &quot;cocktail&quot; therapy that can be swallowed in a single dose.
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Women who take combination AIDS drugs not only have benefits for their own health but also may pass along high levels of the medication through breast-feeding, potentially protecting their infants from HIV infection, suggests research being presented at
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LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday defended trials of HIV (news - web sites) drugs in orphans, saying &quot;clinical trials involving children and orphans were legal and not unusual.
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Administering co-trimoxazole, a cheap, widely used antibiotic, to HIV-positive children could dramatically cut AIDS-related deaths in Africa.
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The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS virus as &quot;a major breakthrough.&quot;
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A low-cost antibiotic should be given to all children with HIV (news - web sites) in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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Giving HIV-positive children a common antibiotic could nearly halve the death rate, the UN says.
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Researchers have found for the first time that the incidence of the virus among breast-fed infants can be significantly reduced by using antiretroviral drugs for up to six months.
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LONDON - All children with HIV in developing countries should take a low-cost antibiotic because it could nearly halve the death rate, researchers say.
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Cheap drugs will not control the world's spiralling rates of HIV alone and poverty must be tackled, a charity warns.
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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.