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United Press International - December 3, 2005
The study -- authored by researchers of Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York and the GHESKIO Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- suggests the feasibility of rapidly and effectively initiating anti-retroviral therapy in a large number of patients in an impoverished country.
Of the more than 900 adults and 94 children at GHESKIO infected with HIV, 87 percent of adults survived -- and 98 percent of children who received the three-drug anti-retroviral therapy survived after one year.
The treatment outcomes in Haiti were comparable to treatment outcomes achieved in HIV clinics at the best academic medical centers in the United States, said the researchers.
The findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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