AIDS Therapies

Chloroquine Can Be Effective Option For Patients In Poor Countries

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 26th, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer - Chloroquine, commonly used as a treatment for malaria, may also help solve the problem of finding effective HIV drugs affordable for developing countries.

Clinical trials have confirmed the extensive HIV inhibiting ability of chloroquine and its derivatives, A. Savarino and colleagues reported in the Journal of Clinical Virology. Because these drugs have already seen extensive use, their toxicity profiles are well known. HIV inhibition was found at doses well within the safe range, the researchers added.

Multiple HIV strains are susceptible to chloroquine inhibition, according to their report,...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-03-26)

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