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TB Hampers HIV Treatment
August 4, 2008
Nevirapine - a cheap antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV in developing countries - did not work as well in patients also on TB treatment.
But another more expensive drug - efavirenz - did not seem to be affected by the TB treatment, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported.
Around 40% of HIV patients in the South African study were also treated for TB.
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Christopher Gibbs on 4 August 2008
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