Sentences with phrase «evaluate antiretroviral»

«For those of us who saw the AIDS epidemic explode and who watched helplessly as thousands died, the opportunity to try to develop an HIV cure is truly amazing,» said Paul Volberding, MD, a UCSF professor of medicine who started the Positive Health Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in the early days of the epidemic and was a leader in early clinical trials to evaluate antiretroviral therapy.
Infection of mice with these viruses has been successfully applied to study aspects of HIV neuropathogenesis and to evaluate antiretroviral drugs and potential HIV vaccines.

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The World Health Organization recommends that if mothers taking ARV treatments to delay disease progression choose to breastfeed, they should continue their ARV regimen even though the effects on infant health and on transmission through breastfeeding have not yet been evaluated.9 Provide antiretroviral prophylaxis for PMTCT.
Trials are currently underway to evaluate the safety and efficacy of antiretroviral regimens taken by the mother and / or infant after delivery to prevent transmission through breastfeeding.
The HPTN 052 trial was designed to evaluate whether antiretroviral therapy reduces sexual transmission of HIV.
Several large clinical trials have evaluated whether antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection in healthy populations.
In addition to the vaginal gel laced with the drug tenofovir, VOICE also set out to evaluate daily use of oral tenofovir as well as a second drug, Truvada, that combines the drug with another antiretroviral.
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