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Landmark Study Defines Benefits of Early HIV Testing and Treatment for Infected Infants

National Institutes of Health - Posted: November 20th, 2008, 12:01pm EST

Testing very young babies for HIV and giving antiretroviral therapy (ART) immediately to those found infected with the virus dramatically prevents illness and death, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. These findings come from the Children with HIV Early Antiretroviral Therapy (CHER) study, the first Phase III randomized clinical trial to study the best time to begin ART in infants. Launched in South Africa in July 2005, CHER is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the departments of health of the Western Cape and Gauteng in South Africa.

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