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Wednesday, February 09, 2005
AIDS
"the holocaust of poor people" - the poor of the world, not only in America.
i don't have the exact stats but i think in America the rates are lower. In other parts of the world, the problem is escalating because of lack of healthcare and HIV medications.
The use of anti-viral drugs such as AZT and nevirapine have been shown to reduce transmission of HIV from mother to fetus. However, the program that prescribed single doses of nevirapine to pregnant mothers effectively made their viruses resistant to the drug. Since it was one of the cheapest drugs available to third-world people, this program may have made orphans of the fetuses that were protected.
5 comments:
can't wait to hear those thoughts running rampant in your head!
This is going to be interesting.
What is happening is just saddening.
i don't have the exact stats but i think in America the rates are lower. In other parts of the world, the problem is escalating because of lack of healthcare and HIV medications.
for the stream of consciousness explanation, see the "stream" post below
The use of anti-viral drugs such as AZT and nevirapine have been shown to reduce transmission of HIV from mother to fetus. However, the program that prescribed single doses of nevirapine to pregnant mothers effectively made their viruses resistant to the drug. Since it was one of the cheapest drugs available to third-world people, this program may have made orphans of the fetuses that were protected.
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