Statistical work helps calm worries about anti-AIDS drugs and pregnancy

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:22:15 -0400

For years, physicians have prescribed antiretroviral therapies for HIV-positive, pregnant women to reduce the risk of babies being born with the AIDS virus. About 6,000 HIV-infected women give birth each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Concerns about the effects of anti-AIDS drugs and premature births were raised by the contemporaneous release of results from a study in Switzerland and the observation of an unexpectedly large number of premature births in three ongoing Phase I clinical trials of combination antiretroviral therapy in the United States.

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Statistical work helps calm worries about anti-AIDS drugs and pregnancy