Tag: Marc Lallemant

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    Shorter treatment as effective, less costly in preventing HIV in babies

    Of the more than 1,500 infants who get HIV from their infected mothers every day, 95 percent live in developing countries where the poverty level is high. Many mothers in these regions do not have access to the three- to six-month AZT treatment, now considered the standard treatment to prevent perinatal HIV transmission in developed…

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