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HIV viral load

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HIV viral load
AIDS A measure of the amount of HIV RNA in blood, expressed as number of copies/mL of plasma. See AIDS, HIV.


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The study's Phase III clinical trials -- the last step before an approval request can be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- showed Isentress reduced HIV viral load to undetectable levels in 86 percent of patients, against only 82 percent treated with efavirenz, an older anti-HIV medication also developed by Merck.
The study's Phase III clinical trials -- the last step before an approval request can be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- showed Isentress reduced HIV viral load to undetectable levels in 86 percent of patients, against only 82 percent treated with efavirenz, an older anti-HIV medication also developed by Merck.
The result is a fragmented and inequitable health system, where we can count HIV viral loads, but a woman dying in childbirth can't get a Caesarean section, where one district has a state-of-the-art hospital while the next district has an empty cement-block building without running water or electricity.
 
 
 
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