Word: azt
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...currently accepted method for preventing HIV transmission from mother to child requires three to sixth months of treatment for the mother and child with the drug zidovudine (AZT). This regimen, while effective in advanced nations, is not accessible to the impoverished areas most stricken by AIDS...
...researchers found that the shorter AZT treatment, although not quite as effective, can still reduce perinatal transmission--and at one-fifth the usual cost...
Hence Washington's consternation when Mbeki's forceful, bold voice began speaking out often against the scientific assumptions of current AIDS therapies, refused to supply AZT to pregnant women to prevent transmission of HIV in the womb and then invited "AIDS dissident" scientists to sit on a prestigious national advisory panel. Disquiet deepened last week when Mbeki, opening the international AIDS conference, maintained that "we [can] not blame everything on a single virus" and stressed poverty as the most important factor. Almost everyone--including some of his most loyal political allies--has been stunned by Mbeki's HIV skepticism...
...told what to do by anyone. But even Mbeki's supporters fear that his stubbornness on AIDS may be increasing the risks to his countrymen. Pressure is growing for him to re-evaluate his contrarian stance on HIV and--at the very least--to allow AZT treatment for pregnant women. That demand in particular was endorsed last Friday by a man Mbeki can't easily refuse: Nelson Mandela...
...executive order by President Clinton that Washington would refrain from enforcing U.S. patents on AIDS drugs in African countries battling the disease. That would leave those countries free to license or develop far cheaper generic versions of the patented drugs - already in Brazil, for example, a generic version of AZT sells for about 10 percent of the patented drug's price on the U.S. market - which pharmaceutical corporations fear could eventually eat into their global market share...