AIDS Therapies

Once-Daily Protease Inhibitor Shows Fewer Side Effects

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 19th, 2001

A protease inhibitor has been shown to be safe, tolerable, and effective in HIV positive patients with only one dose a day.

The drug, known as BMS-232632, differs from previous protease inhibitors in part because those drugs have required patients to adhere to complex dosing schedules. Doctors commonly prescribe one of a variety of protease inhibitors, in partnership with drugs called nucleoside analogs, in a pharmaceutical battle plan to combat HIV.

The data were presented by a University of Southern California (USC) researcher at the Eighth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held in Chicago, Illinois, during February...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-02-19)

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