Danger or safety: Nevirapine in HIV prevention programme
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The government was trying to blame everyone else for its decision to use nevirapine in its mother-to-child HIV prevention programme, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Saturday.
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top U.S. health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported thousands of severe reactions, including deaths, government documents show.
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The African National Congress, South Africa&#39;s ruling party, has accused US government of promoting the use of the anti-Aids drug &quot;nevirapine&quot; in this country.
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It's an Achilles' heel of HIV therapy: The AIDS virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, despite today's best medicines. Now scientists are beginning to test drugs that may protect against the memory loss and other symptoms of so-called neuroAIDS, which afflicts at least one in five people with HIV and is becoming more common as patients live longer.
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CHEVY CHASE, Md., Dec. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers based partly in South Africa has identified a key set of immune system molecules that helps determine how effectively a person resists infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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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,...
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[LUSAKA] Africa&#39;s scientific community should develop standards to guide research on microbicides - substances that kill or block the HIV virus â-aid participants at a meeting on vaginal microbicides held last week (17-19 November) by the Southern
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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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With more than 1.8 million people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia, the epidemic poses a serious threat to the region's social and economic stability, according to the Joint United Nations Programme ...
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Sudden jumps of HIV levels in patients taking drugs for the AIDS-causing infection are harmless blips and do not mean the treatment against the virus is losing its punch, a report said on Tuesday.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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OPPOSITION parties have called for the continued use of nevirapine to help prevent the motherto-child transmission of HIV despite the African National Congress&#39;s (ANC&#39;s) concerns about the safety of the drug.
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A series of articles critical of past trials of an important AIDS drug has created a furor in Africa, causing many public health experts to worry that some countries will stop using
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top U.S. health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported thousands of severe reactions including deaths, government documents show.
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Smokers may be at greater risk of HIV infection compared with non-smokers, research suggests.
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The world&#39;s biggest AIDS conference  closed on Wednesday with a call for the development of  child-specific drugs to ensure millions of HIV-infected  children not only survive to adulthood, but also live without  damaging side effects from their treatment.
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The government&#39;s chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a US-funded study of the anti-HIV drug nevirapine, sold in the United States as Viramune, to change its conclusions and delete negative information.