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Early Treatment Best for AIDS-Infected Babies
Nov. 19, 2008
By Gene Emery
Sooner is better when it comes to treating infants born with the AIDS virus, HIV, researchers reported.
A South African study of 377 babies found that giving newborns drug therapy right away, and not waiting until conventional tests showed a higher risk of becoming ill, cut the death rate by 76 percent.
When doctors withheld therapy until there were symptoms of AIDS or until immune system cells called CD4 T-cells dropped to low levels, the death rate was 16 percent, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
© 2008 Reuters
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http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AI8UX20081119
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 20 November 2008
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