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Operating alone, each of the three drugs -- AZT, ddI and pyridinone -- merely slows down the virus' ability to reproduce. Eventually, the microbe mutates and becomes resistant to treatment. Chow's triple combo, however, appears to overwhelm HIV's ability to develop into new strains. More than a month after the scientists stopped treatment of their laboratory cultures, they could find no virus...
...AZT and ddI, common anti-AIDS drugs approved by the FDA, can become ineffective because of the virus' capacity to mutate to forms not susceptible to the drugs...
Chow and his colleagues found that AZT and ddI, added separately, caused the virus to mutate to different forms, but did little to halt its function...
...when they combined AZT, ddI and another reverse transcriptase inhibitor, pyridinone, the virus could no longer replicate and infect other cells...
...Kurt Reynold's 1990 mixed-media piece "Blessed Art Thou Among Women?" illustrates the unfair treatment of women with AIDS. The base of the work is a framed picture of the Virgin Mary. Suspended in front of her portrait is a string of rosary beads made of capsules of AZT, the drug that counteracts some of the symptoms of the HIV virus...