Science news articles about 'nevirapine'
Prolonged nevirapine in breast-fed babies prevents HIV infection but leads to drug-resistant HIV
... a single dose of the drug. When investigators used more sensitive assays to detect nevirapine-resistant mutations that are normally not detected by standard tests, the proportion of infants ...Extended infant antiretroviral prophylaxis reduces HIV risk during breastfeeding
In many resource-poor countries, infants born to mothers with HIV receive a single dose of nevirapine (NVP) and a one-week dose of zidovudine (ZDV) to prevent transmission of HIV from the mother to ...Findings offer insights into role of breastfeeding in preventing infant death, HIV infection
... NIH institute that provided much of the support for the two studies. "Extended treatment with nevirapine greatly reduces the chances that infants will be infected with HIV through breast milk. The ...Certain HIV treatment less effective when used with anti-TB therapy
... . The authors speculate that these differences, present in patients who start nevirapine-based antiretrovirals with tuberculosis, but not in those who develop tuberculosis once already established ...Stanford study finds HIV drug can persist in mothers' milk, increasing risk to them and their babies
... one or both of these drugs, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, nevirapine has proven to be problematic. Previous studies have found that as many as 69 percent of HIV-positive mothers and ...Efavirenz-based initial therapies associated with better outcomes in HIV-infected adults
... need for a large randomized clinical trial to definitively compare the outcomes of efavirenz and nevirapine and for acceleration of efforts to develop lower cost formulations of efavirenz, including ...Researchers estimate lives lost due to delay in antiretroviral drug use for HIV/AIDS in South Africa
... of South Africa during the period examined in the paper, the government restricted use of donated nevirapine and blocked funds for more than a year from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, ...ART therapy for babies, mothers safely reduces HIV transmission
... of the infants on the maternal treatment arm and 1.8 percent of the infants who received daily nevirapine syrup. Upon examining the probability of HIV infection or death by 28 weeks postpartum, 7.6 ...Weighing costs, benefits of HIV treatments
... did a cohort of 82 children in the same age group who received the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine (NVP). The infants all had previously received a single dose of NVP in liquid form at birth, and ...Maternal HIV-1 treatment protects against transmission to newborns
... of infant infection by 67 percent, compared to infants who received only a single dose of nevirapine and one week of zidovudine. In an editorial accompanying the authors' latest article, Grace C. ...Combination antiretroviral therapy effective at reducing HIV resistance in mothers and babies following mother-to-child transmission
... and delivery to prevent transmission – is effective in reducing the drug resistance that nevirapine causes when used by itself. Such resistance can compromise later treatment regimens that include ...
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