From San Francisco, at the 7th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
In developing countries, one important, relatively affordable way of reducing HIV transmission may be to give HIV-infected women a dose of an antiviral drug during labor. However, a study of 15 women in Uganda suggests that a single dose of the AIDS drug nevirapine may prod the virus to develop drug resistance.
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