Sentences with phrase «first antiretroviral»
AZT (zidovudine), the first antiretroviral drug, becomes available to treat HIV sufferers after a successful clinical trial.
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Your baby should take one or more antiretroviral drugs for the first 4 or 6 weeks of life.
WHO guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding in 2010 for the first time recommended the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent postnatal transmission of HIV through breastfeeding.
Gilead was also one of the first to introduce tiered pricing of the antiretroviral treatments that had become so effective at tackling HIV.
A single dose of the drug zoledronic acid was found to inhibit the bone loss that is common in HIV - infected patients and that is increased during the first two years of treatment with antiretroviral therapy (ART).
The first success in the search for HIV treatments was a class of antiretroviral drugs called reverse transcriptase inhibitors (see full diagram).
As with the general population, the organization recommends that all HIV - positive pregnant women begin antiretroviral therapy in their first trimester if their CD4 counts drop to 350 (instead of the previous threshold of 200), and by the second trimester regardless of CD4 count.
«Beginning with our first anti-HIV drug, Viread, approved in 2001, and with the subsequent launches of Emtriva, Truvada, and most recently Atripla, all of which are dosed once daily with or without food, Gilead has been front and center in developing once - daily combination antiretroviral therapy,» Bischofberger says.
In August, for the first time in more than a decade, the FDA approved a new class of antiretroviral drugs called entry inhibitors.
Where budgets are limited, they suggest money should be allocated first to increasing male circumcision, then to more frequent HIV screening, use of vaginal microbicides and increasing antiretroviral therapy.
CAPRISA 004 is the first study to demonstrate the effectiveness of an antiretroviral (ARV)- based HIV prevention approach.
Highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, typically combines three antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) as a first line treatment for HIV infection.
But at least the antibiotics and antiretrovirals have been shown to work when first introduced into widespread use.
Canadian First Nations health leader Dr Alexandra King said the benefits of antiretroviral therapies (ART) were many and convincing, but they would not address many of the cause issues for Indigenous people with HIV and were also raising a number of ethical issues.