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Drug May Reduce AIDS Risk

AZT Shown to Lessen Chance of Mother-Child Transmission

Reseachers have shown that the drug .

Harvard participated, was conducted by the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group at 59 centers in the United State and France

Researches found that when mothers were given AZT while still pregnant, the rate of AIDS transmission to their newborns decreased from 30 percent to 8 percent. This finding greatly exceeded the expectations of the researchers themselves, who estimated that AZT might reduce the rate of transmission by 10 percentage points rather than 22.

"The results were so striking that the study was stopped before its

Although promising research is needed to AZT will percent transmission of AIDS

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