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posted by martyb on Friday August 02 2019, @05:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-stop-what-you-started dept.

Surveys by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that, in the past 4 years, 12 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas have surpassed acceptable levels of drug resistance against two drugs that constitute the backbone of HIV treatment: efavirenz and nevirapine.

[...] The WHO conducted surveys from 2014 to 2018 in randomly selected clinics in 18 countries, and examined the levels of resistance in people who had started HIV treatment during that period.

More than 10% of adults with the virus have developed resistance to these drugs in 12 nations (see ‘Resistance rises’). Above this threshold, it’s not considered safe to prescribe the same HIV medicines to the rest of the population, because resistance could increase. Researchers published the findings this month in WHO report.

[...] Overall, 12% of women surveyed had a drug-resistant form of HIV, compared with 8% of men.

Particularly concerning, says the report, is the high level of resistance in infants with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2012 and 2018, about one-half of newly diagnosed infants in nine of the countries in this region had a form of HIV that was resistant to efavirenz, nevirapine or both.

[...] The prevalence of resistance in people who restarted efavirenz and nevirapine after interrupting treatment was much higher (21%) than in first-time users (8%).

[...] In response to the evidence, the WHO has recommended that countries use dolutegravir, which is more effective and tolerable than other therapies, as the go-to HIV drug.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @05:45AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @05:45AM (#874490)

    Cool story, bro. Cure for AIDS is in one particularly old book. I have no sympathy for those who who become afflicted.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @11:18AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @11:18AM (#874557)

    Wave around the bible = don't get laid = don't get AIDS.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @01:06PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @01:06PM (#874594)

      It's all well and good until airborne AIDS escapes the CIA and infects even the most pious and least hypocritical Bible thumpers.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @01:59PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @01:59PM (#874617)

        There will never be airborn hiv, it needs to be transferred directly from one cell to another.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @03:04AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @03:04AM (#874959)

          I thought only fudge packers caught AIDS and passed it on.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 02 2019, @06:29PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 02 2019, @06:29PM (#874771) Journal

    So few people who use the Bible as a weapon actually know what it says!

    So it's refreshing that you're aware of Leviticus/Deuteronomy's prohibition on eating bush-meat such as monkey, which is likely how humans were exposed to AIDS.

    As a good Christian I'm sure you also don't eat pork or shellfish products!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @06:41AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @06:41AM (#875020)

      Jesus said in the Bible that the Jewish ceremonial laws (dietary laws and circumcision fit this) no longer had to be followed. There was a new emphasis.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @08:51PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @08:51PM (#875246)

        Don't think I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; for I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

        Matthew 5:17-18