From the publishers of The New England Journal of Medicine

Save time and stay informed. Our physician-editors offer you clinical perspectives on key research and news.

  1. Home>
  2. Specialties>
  3. HIV/AIDS Clinical Care>
  4. AIDS Watch

Lopinavir/r Preferred for Children Exposed to Nevirapine at Birth

Children who receive single-dose nevirapine at birth may have better rates of virologic suppression with subsequent antiretroviral regimens that contain lopinavir/ritonavir than with those that contain nevirapine, according to a recent press release from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. This finding emerged during an interim analysis of the P1060 trial in Asia and Africa and is consistent with current WHO recommendations regarding antiretroviral regimens in children previously exposed to nevirapine.

Published in Journal Watch HIV/AIDS Clinical Care May 18, 2009

Citation(s):

Ritonavir-boosted lopinavir proves superior to nevirapine in HIV-infected infants who received single-dose nevirapine at birth [press release]. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; May 6 , 2009. (http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2009/P1060.htm)

Your Remark:

Reader Remarks are intended to encourage lively discussion of clinical topics with your peers in the medical community. We ask that you keep your remarks to a reasonable length, and we reserve the right to withhold publication of remarks that do not meet this standard.

The editors of Journal Watch may respond to Reader Remarks, but we cannot promise to respond to a particular remark.

Fields marked with an * are required.

Name as you'd like it to appear:

Submitting a comment indicates you have read and agreed to the remark guidelines and declare:*

PRIVACY: We will not use your email address, submitted for a comment, for any other purpose nor sell, rent, or share your e-mail address with any third parties. Please see our Privacy Policy.

 

CLEAR erases anything you've added in any part of the form. CONTINUE allows you to check your entire post (and edit it if necessary) before submitting.

To ensure that your Reader Remark is not formatted as one long paragraph, precede new paragraphs with either a blank line or an indentation.

Copyright © 2009. Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.