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Shorter AZT treatment still reduces mother-fetus HIV transmission

United Press International - Thursday, 5 October 2000

BOSTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Infectious disease experts report that a shorter antiviral treatment can lower the rate at which HIV-positive mothers infect their fetuses to about 5 percent and at only one-fifth the cost. If mothers are treated with AZT the last weeks of pregnancy, their newborns need treatment for only three days, not six weeks.
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