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...number of babies infected with HIV at birth has dropped dramatically--from its peak of more than 1,600 in 1991 to fewer than 50 in 2004--thanks to AZT regimens for HIV-positive mothers. But that leaves nearly 10,000 U.S. children who have been diagnosed with AIDS, and their long-term prognosis says a lot about what lies ahead for millions of children in the developing world...
Meanwhile, AIDS sufferers received some encouraging news last week in a study published in the Lancet, a British medical journal. Doctors at the National Cancer Institute and Duke University reported that an experimental anti-AIDS drug, azidothymidine, or AZT, improved the immune system of 15 of the first 19 patients to receive it, producing at least a temporary respite from their condition...
...have been taking so that the fetus is not exposed during this critical developmental window. But drug treatment is resumed or begun in the second trimester and continued through the end of the pregnancy. At the time of delivery and for six weeks afterward, the newborn is given AZT every six hours. "As long as those procedures are followed, the risk of transmission is very low," says Deville. "In fact, we have not seen a single case of mother-to-child infection...
...globe, evidence of the need for more effective programs for treatment and prevention, such as halting the transmission from mother to child. Breast feeding accounts for as much as half of new infections among children in Africa, and studies in Thailand found that adding the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to AZT, which is given to HIV-positive women in their last month of pregnancy, cut transmission from...
DIED. DAVID BARRY, 58, scientist who co-developed AZT, the first effective treatment for AIDS; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Since its introduction in 1987 AZT has helped cut the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission to nearly zero...