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- Title
US AIDS chief altered report on nevirapine safety risks.
- Authors
Singer, Emily
- Abstract
This article informs that an AIDS drug used to block transmission between mothers and babies in Africa may be more dangerous than health officials knew. According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, the chief of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIDS Division, Edmund Tramont, changed a report on the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to minimize safety concerns. The NIH supports the research, citing the many babies saved by the drug, but has also stopped recommending nevirapine as the first-choice treatment for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the HIV if other options are available.
- Subjects
AFRICA; UNITED States; HIV infection transmission; INFANT health; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; NATIONAL Institutes of Health (U.S.)
- Publication
Nature Medicine, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1078-8956
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nm0105-3b