AEGiS-CATIE: ANTI-HIV AGENTS: A cocktail of 5 anti-HIV drugs

ANTI-HIV AGENTS: A cocktail of 5 anti-HIV drugs

TreatmentUpdate 70, Volume 8, No 6; September, 1996
Sean Hosein

Researchers used 6 subjects who had become infected within the past 6 months. Subjects received standard doses of AZT, ddC, ddI and interferon-alpha with or without 3TC. In some subjects, the use of combination anti-HIV therapy caused a dramatic decrease in the amount of HIV detected in their blood. Viral load (HIV RNA) fell to 1/1,000th its pre-treatment level. One subject had a normal CD4+ cell count and the amount of HIV RNA in his blood was less than 12 copies/ml.

REFERENCE:

1. Saget BM, Elbiek T, Guthries J, et al. Dramatic suppression of HIV-1 plasma RNA using a combination of zidovudine, didanosine, zalcitabine, epivir, and interferon-alpha in subjects with recent HIV-1 infection. We.B.533

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