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Wed 01 Oct 2008 10:28pm
/AIDS, specifically AZT, are ineffective and severely toxic. He is the founder of the Treatment Information Group (TIG), the engine of AIDS dissent in South Africa. It was Brink’s first manuscript, Debating AZT: Mbeki and the AIDS drug controversy, that caught Thabo Mbeki’s attention shortly after he became president, marking the beginning of an ongoing
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Posted
Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:07am
Nata Clinic took care of over 100 emergencies during the holiday!
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A new batch of AZT arrived at Nata Clinic today. Sr. Nurse Gaokwale and nurse midwife Sinyama are in charge of documenting all the AZT that comes into the clinic. Nata Clinic was very busy over the holiday. They cared for 13 people who
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Posted
Mon 09 Feb 2009 12:00am
4 mg a day of rosiglitazone produced a gain of fat under the skin of 900 grams versus 300 grams in placebo in patients not taking zerit or azt after 48 weeks
Insulin resistance improved. No weight gain. It is not known if rosiglitazone will increase cardiovascular risks in poz people as it has in hiv negatives
No visceral fat measurements were
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Posted
Tue 24 Aug 2010 12:00am
), L-000870812 (Merck & Co.), and two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors; tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Gilead Sciences, brand name Viread), and zidovudine (GlaxoSmithKline, azidothymidine (AZT)). Synergistic effects were reported when the drugs were used in combination.
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Posted
Mon 10 Nov 2008 4:22pm
at that time was AZT, so I eagerly filled the prescription and started taking the medication five times per day, as directed. The GI side effects were so intolerable that I only lasted
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Posted
Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:07am
in it. Pregnant women, who are HIV positive, start taking AZT at 24 weeks and then medication is given during labor and to the child right after birth. This program has been instrumental
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Posted
Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:07am
are HIV positive beginning taking AZT at 24 weeks of pregnancy and then are given drugs during labour to prevent transmission. The infant is also given medication after birth. We
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Posted
Thu 18 Dec 2008 7:29pm
for lipodystrophy, there are many things that we have learned since then. One is the potential impact of nucleoside thymidine analogs like d4T (Zerit, stavudine) and AZT (zidovudine... (published in 1999) included a number of patients receiving didanosine in both stavudine (d4T/ddI = 13/27, 48%) and zidovudine treatment groups (AZT/ddI = 13/16, 81%) that were well
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