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Minority and HMO-insured patients poorly represented in HIV drug trials

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 8th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in California argue that participants in HIV clinical trials are not representiative of the population at large.

"Although there is concern that minority groups and women are underrepresented in research involving patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the available data are inconclusive," according to Dr. Allen L. Gifford and colleagues at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla, the University of California at Los Angeles in Los Angeles, and RAND Health, a healthcare research organization based in Santa...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-07-08)

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