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Certain HIV treatment less effective when used with anti-TB therapy
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 19th, 2008
Patients receiving rifampicin-based anti-tuberculosis therapy are more likely to experience virological failure when starting nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy, an HIV treatment that is widely used in developing countries because of lower cost, than when starting efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy, according to a study in the August 6 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV/AIDS.
Andrew Boulle, M.B.Ch.B., M.Sc., of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing on HIV/AIDS.
Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) is frequently initiated in resource-limited countries when patients are...
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