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Thousands Call AIDS Hotline

Associated Press - September 22, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (AP) -Since disclosure of the first drug to help AIDS sufferers, thousands of people have called a Federal hotline to get more information, health officials said today. Federal authorities announced Friday that an experimental drug found to extend the lives of some AIDS patients would be made available to certain categories of AIDS patients. They stressed, however, that the drug was not a cure, and that it could have serious side effects.

The National Institutes of Health said a special telephone hotline established to answer questions about the drug, azidothymidine or AZT, had received more than 3,500 calls from patients and physicians between Friday and Monday. The Federal hotline number is (800) 843-9388. It operates daily from 8 A.M. until midnight, Eastern time.


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