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...currently accepted method for preventing HIV transmission from mother to child requires three to sixth months of treatment for the mother and child with the drug zidovudine (AZT). This regimen, while effective in advanced nations, is not accessible to the impoverished areas most stricken by AIDS...
...researchers found that the shorter AZT treatment, although not quite as effective, can still reduce perinatal transmission--and at one-fifth the usual cost...
...While AZT's efficacy in preventing HIV transmission is well established, the SPH study marks the first time researchers have considered the optimal duration of treatment, said Dr. Marc Lallemant, the study director...
Hence Washington's consternation when Mbeki's forceful, bold voice began speaking out often against the scientific assumptions of current AIDS therapies, refused to supply AZT to pregnant women to prevent transmission of HIV in the womb and then invited "AIDS dissident" scientists to sit on a prestigious national advisory panel. Disquiet deepened last week when Mbeki, opening the international AIDS conference, maintained that "we [can] not blame everything on a single virus" and stressed poverty as the most important factor. Almost everyone--including some of his most loyal political allies--has been stunned by Mbeki's HIV skepticism...
...told what to do by anyone. But even Mbeki's supporters fear that his stubbornness on AIDS may be increasing the risks to his countrymen. Pressure is growing for him to re-evaluate his contrarian stance on HIV and--at the very least--to allow AZT treatment for pregnant women. That demand in particular was endorsed last Friday by a man Mbeki can't easily refuse: Nelson Mandela...