New England Journal of Medicine Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/new-england-journal-of-medicine/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 24 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 New England Journal of Medicine Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/new-england-journal-of-medicine/ 32 32 Medication change could save 100 000 AIDS sufferers’ lives a year https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/medication-change-save-100-000-aids-sufferers-lives-year/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/medication-change-save-100-000-aids-sufferers-lives-year/ A Paris conference on HIV/AIDS has heard that a simple change in medication could save more than 100 000 lives a year. Doctors making this claim cite a study in  Uganda, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Kenya. The results of the study are carried in the New England Journal of Medicine. It says HIV is often diagnosed […]

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]]> A Paris conference on HIV/AIDS has heard that a simple change in medication could save more than 100 000 lives a year.

Doctors making this claim cite a study in  Uganda, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Kenya.

The results of the study are carried in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It says HIV is often diagnosed late when after it’s already ravaged the immune system.

The researchers prescribe a cocktail of drugs at the start of HIV therapy to  treat opportunistic infections.

Their trial involved 1 805 patients over the age of five.

Normally more than one in ten would died within weeks of diagnosis.

The test showed a fall in deaths and other diseases associated with HIV infection.

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