New Study On Prevention Of Transfer Of HIV

New Study On Prevention Of Transfer Of HIV.
An antiviral numb may assist protect injection drug users from HIV infection, a restored study finds. The study of more than 2400 injection drug users recruited at 17 remedy treatment clinics in Thailand found that daily tablets of tenofovir reduced the risk of HIV infection by nearly 49 percent, compared to quiescent placebo pills. One expert said an intervention to worker shield injection drug users from HIV - the virus that causes AIDS - is much needed.

And "This is an mighty study that opens up an additional option for preventing HIV in a hard-to-reach population," said Dr Joseph McGowan, medical official at the Center for AIDS Research and Treatment at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. He famed that "HIV infections persist to occur at high rates, with over 2,5 million worldwide and 50000 renewed infections in the US each year. This is despite widespread knowledge about HIV infection and the mode it is spread, through unprotected sex and sharing needles for injecting drugs".

The participants included in the changed study were followed for an average of four years. During that time, 17 of the more than 1200 patients taking tenofovir became infected with HIV, compared with 33 of an comparable number of patients taking a placebo, according to the con published online June 12, 2013 in The Lancet. Further analyses of the results showed that the sheltering effect of tenofovir was highest among those who most closely followed the drug's prescribed regimen.

In this group, the danger of HIV infection was reduced by more than 70 percent, said study leaders Dr Kachit Choopanya and Dr Michael Martin, supervisor of clinical research for the Thailand Ministry of Public Health-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration. Prior inspect has shown that hindering use of antiviral drugs cuts the risk of sexual transmission of HIV in both heterosexual couples and men who have union with men, and also reduces mother-to-child transmission of HIV.