Now online at AIDS Treatment News:

*** Nevirapine Misinformation: Will It Kill?
Summary: In mid December 2004 three Associated Press stories created
widespread doubts about nevirapine, a well-known, critically important
drug that can prevent HIV in many of the 1,800 babies now infected
every day by their mothers in childbirth. The media allegations that
went around the world grew out of a bitter personal and personnel
dispute between two employees at the U.S. National Institutes of
Health. No new information about nevirapine was released; doctors know
that it still has the same risks and benefits after the newspaper
stories as before. But many experts fear that the emotions released by
the worldwide misinformation will result in many HIV-positive mothers
getting no treatment and unnecessarily infecting their children with
HIV. Here is background that has been missing in many of the news
reports. [December 31, 2004]
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2004/12/nevirapine-ap.html

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John S James
AIDS Treatment News
www.aidsnews.org