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Researches found that when mothers were given AZT while still pregnant, the rate of AIDS transmission to their newborns decreased from 30 percent to 8 percent. This finding greatly exceeded the expectations of the researchers themselves, who estimated that AZT might reduce the rate of transmission by 10 percentage points rather than...
...anti-HIV medications approved so far are chemical cousins of AZT, the first drug ever shown to put a damper on hiv infection, if only temporarily. AZT works by sabotaging an enzyme called reverse transcriptase that helps the virus copy itself. But the newest group of potential fast trackers, called protease inhibitors, interferes with a different part of the virus' reproductive cycle. Although protease inhibitors don't seem to slow down HIV for long, investigators hope a combination of an older AZT-like drug and one of the new pills could prove more effective than any single medication...
...declaration came despite a recent experimental trial--in which several Harvard doctors participated--showing that the antiviral drug AZT is associated with the delayed onset of AIDS in HIV-positive people...
...article in the August 10 Journal of the American Medical Association titled "The Duration of Zidovudine Benefit in Persons With Asymptomativ HIV Infection" concluded that AZT, when administered at 500 milligram doses "caused a significant delay in progression to AIDS or death [in asymptomatic individuals...
...article also said that the negative effect that AZT has on the progression of the disease appears to be nonpermanent, lasting about 2 years for most individuals in the trial...