IOM report should end nevirapine controversy, HIVMA says
...child transmission of HIV. "IOM has confirmed that nevirapine is a valuable tool to prevent mother-to-child tran...n its review of HIVNET 012, a study on single-dose nevirapine conducted in Uganda in the late 1990s funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), IOM today f...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...dan drug trial's findings that the AIDS medication nevirapine is effective and safe in preventing HIV transmissi... data from the HIVNET 012 study, which showed that nevirapine effectively prevents many infants from contracting HIV from their infected mothers, are sound and re...Drug to block mother-to-child HIV transmission induces resistance more often than previously thought
...s Diseases, now available online. A single dose of nevirapine given to an HIV-infected pregnant woman during del...lative simplicity and affordability of single-dose nevirapine have made it the drug of choice for prevention of mother-to-child transmission in many developing co...Antiretroviral therapy may prevent HIV transmission from breastfeeding mothers to infants
..., and all of the infants received a single dose of nevirapine and continuous zidovudine therapy after birth. At ...gators observed high, inhibitory concentrations of nevirapine that were above those thought necessary to protect against HIV infection. Dr. Shapiro and colleagues...Response to anti-HIV therapy improved if treatment begins six months after preventive regimen
... HIV treatment with drug combinations that contain nevirapine is improved if at least six months have passed aft...will pass HIV on to her child. A single dose of nevirapine is a common preventive regimen given to pregnant women during labor in resource-poor countries where...