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Public Citizen, which was founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader, condemned the studies because they did not provide HIV-infected mothers with AZT, a drug that reduces the possibility of mother-to-child transmission by two-thirds, according to Wilbert C. Jordan '66, director of the AIDS program at King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles...
Once it is in the brain, HIV--the virus that causes AIDS--is invulnerable to the action of all the treatments which have been developed to fight it, with the exception of AZT...
Unfortunately, that kind of piecemeal progress has long been part of the territory in treating pediatric AIDS. AZT, the first drug shown to fight AIDS, wasn't okayed for children until 1990--three years after it had been approved for adults. The syrup form, which is easier for children to swallow, didn't become available until...
...more likely next step, therefore, would be to place pregnant women who are HIV positive on a combination of protease inhibitors and AZT. About 1 in 4 children born to untreated HIV-positive mothers develop the infection themselves. The use of AZT during pregnancy has cut that transmission rate to 8%. In the next few months researchers will begin putting HIV-infected mothers on combination therapy with protease inhibitors to see if they can cut the rate to zero. But protease inhibitors are so much more powerful and potentially toxic than AZT that no one knows what harm it might...
Year after year, Schwartz looked handsome and sturdy. All the while, his T cells ticked downward. In 1992, when they dipped below 500--the normal level is around 1,000--Schwartz's doctor put him on AZT, one of the few drugs then available that attack the virus directly. Both understood that it would fail after a while. Later Schwartz added 3TC, another antiviral. AIDS took a first cuff at him anyway. He began experiencing memory loss and having difficulty concentrating. Every few weeks, something that felt like the flu would send him to bed for days. In the summer...