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Live For Another 13 Years with New HIV Drugs

by Nivedita Saini - July 25, 2008 - 0 comments

During the course of searching for a cure for HIVdefine, Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., Kenneth Freedberg, M.D., M.Sc., and their colleagues become conscious of the fact that the betterment in the treatment of HIV using the new generation drugs has led to a survival benefit of millions of years and also disallowed 2,900 mother to child infection cases.

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