Death seems to haunt HIV infected people one way or the other. The latest news is that the patient taking a drug to fight the killer disease only increases the risk of another deadly disease, heart attack. ‘Antiretroviral’ drug Abacavir is used in many anti-AIDS treatments doubles the risk of heart attack in the patients. Abacavir is used in WHO approved drugs sold under the name of Ziagen, Didanosine, and Videx. In a study carried out by the University of Copenhagen over 33,000 HIV people, it was found that the patients who took drugs such as Ziagen and Videx had twice the chances of a heart attack compared to patients on other equivalent drugs.
These antiretrovirals are wonderful and lifesaving, but they do have toxicity problems. It may be that we can continue to use them, but we need to be aware of their long-term problems.
says Dr Charlie Gilks, WHO director of Aids treatment and prevention. WHO will review the implications of using these drugs on large scale and consider recommending the alternatives in case they have substantial proof of the effects of the approved drugs.
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This is really scary. When on one hand AIDS itself is a life threatening disease and changes or alters the life of the individual completely, the drugs adding to their woes is a real problem. The medicines are, as mentioned fuelling up their prblems by leading them to death. This sure is a big problem and needs to be tackled at the earliest. Hope enough is being done about the same.
unbeleivable.. save you from AIDS, but kill you from a stroke or heart attack.
This is really scary.
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