Next front in worldwide AIDS battle: Stretching use of anti-HIV drugs
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
Medical researchers say it is possible to stretch the use of anti-HIV drugs. More efficient and cheaper manufacturing methods, better drug formulations, lower-dose prescriptions and shorter treatment periods are all feasible, safe and potentially effective. Implementation of these efforts would, they say, make the drugs more accessible to the remaining two-thirds of people with HIV disease, most of them living in poor sub-Saharan Africa and unable to afford or get access to treatment on their own.