Thursday, July 20, 2017

WHO urges action against HIV drug resistance threat

WHO has detailed an increasing trend of resistance to HIV drugs in a new report, warning that this is a growing threat. The 2017 WHO HIV drug resistance report shows that in 6 of the 11 countries surveyed, over 10% of people starting antiretroviral therapy had a strain of HIV resistant to the most widely used medicines.

From: http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/hiv-drug-resistance/en/index.html

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