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TREATMENT BRIEFS: Oral Ganciclovir Access Plan (Sort of)

Gay Men's Health Crisis: Treatment Issues, Volume 8 no. 4 - June 1994
David Gold

The Syntex Corp. of Palo Alto, California has announced a program to make oral ganciclovir available to PWAs with CMV who are unable to receive ganciclovir through central catheter due to catheter infections or thrombosis (clotting of veins). Physicians should call 800/569-4630. Activists criticized the open label program because of the amount of time it took to develop and, more importantly, because it requires that patients must have a history of having a catheter removed two or more times due to catheter infection or thrombosis within the six months prior to enrollment. Kevin Frost of ACT UP and TAG called the program "laughable." Syntex plans to meet with community representatives to "discuss these issues."

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