[Dean's World] Dean: AZT

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Posted by Dean:
AZT
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1167786352.shtml


   Almost everyone in the AIDS research community now admits that the
   megadoses of Ziduvodine (AZT) that were given to early AIDS patients
   in the 1980s were insanely high. AZT is quite deadly, and no one that
   I'm aware of denies this anymore. Even if you believe the standard
   wisdom on HIV, megadoses of AZT are a bad, bad idea according to most
   sources. Giving an HIV+ person the standard doses of AZT that were
   used 15 years ago would be considered medical malpractice now. If you
   use it at all, you're supposed to use it in very small doses in
   combination with other drug therapies.

   Well, that's true in the US and Europe anyway. [1]In Africa,
   apparently not so much.

   Any chance that giving those kids better food and clean water might
   help them more than drugs? Just curious.

References

   1. http://barnesworld.blogs.com/barnes_world/2007/01/the_whos_bluepr_1.html