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...AIDS patients undergoing therapy with the drug AZT who were also given the antiviral agent acyclovir had a survival rate 44% higher than those who took just AZT, according to a new study...
...babies, who cannot make decisions for themselves? Should test results be disclosed so that all HIV-infected babies can be given immediate treatment? Then there is a separate matter: Should women be tested for HIV early in pregnancy, since it is now sometimes possible to use the drug AZT to block the transmission of the virus from mother to child...
...just beginning. "It is a very deep ethical and social dilemma," says Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, "and fraught with all manner of emotional responses." One thing is certain: each year about 1,800 newborns in the U.S. are infected with HIV. If AZT can safely reduce that number, the pressure for routine testing will only rise...
...testing and AZT help the kids most vulnerable...
Prominent AIDS researcher Dr. Samuel A. Bozzette, professor of medicine at the UC-San Diego School of Medicine, said the study will help physicians and their patients to make informed decisions about the use of AZT...