HIV drug resistance slashed in Europe - Democratic Underground

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Mon Oct-10-11 01:14 PM
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HIV drug resistance slashed in Europe

Edited on Mon Oct-10-11 01:14 PM by closeupready

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/10/health-hiv-drug-resistance.html

The number of people who were able to keep HIV under control after original drugs failed has tripled in a decade, European researchers have found.

Since 1998, doctors have recommended that all HIV patients in western Europe start antiretroviral treatment with three or more drugs of two different types to reduce the amount of virus in their blood.

More treatments have recently become available to help those who developed resistance to the three original drugs.

The Pursuing Later Treatment Option II trial, or PLATO II, was designed to find out whether the newer treatments actually helped reduce resistance.

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Mon Oct-10-11 01:23 PM
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1. Antiviral or antibiotic drugs are always an arms race. nt

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