Mothers, orphans, and prevention of paediatric AIDS
2002; Elsevier BV; Volume: 359; Issue: 9313 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(02)08248-x
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
ResumoThis editorial argues that antiretroviral drugs to combat vertical transmission must be chosen and administered without causing eventual drug resistance. The writer states that although active deployment of Petra A or B or HIVNET 012 drug protocols in the developing world may prevent hundreds of thousands of pediatric AIDS infections these same women and their infected children exposed to short-course zidovudine plus lamivudine or single-dose nevirapine will be at substantial risk of treatment failure when antiretroviral therapy becomes available. Given the pending crisis of Africas AIDS orphans policymakers should consider more carefully treatment programs that save the lives of mothers.
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