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Drug
May Reduce Mother-to-Baby
AIDS
Scientists
fighting the ravages of AIDS in the Third World have shown that
a short and inexpensive combination of HIV drugs could reduce
mother-to-baby transmission rates.
The
drug combinations appear to have an extremely low rate of resistance,
and offer a relatively inexpensive and easy-to-take alternative
for many women. In the United States, the complete three-drug
HIV cocktail has cut mother-to-baby transmission rates to around
2 percent.
Doctors
have long known that the AIDS virus can be transmitted through
breast milk. But many are reluctant to discourage breast-feeding
in the Third World, since formula feeding has been linked in the
past to more baby illnesses and deaths from a variety of causes.
About 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. About
65 percent live in sub-Saharan Africa. About 3 million people
died in the epidemic last year.
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