South Africa: HIV Trial Gets Long-Awaited Go Ahead

After years of legal wrangling and controversy, authorities finally approved an anti-HIV drug trial. Sharon Davis and Christina Scott report.A clinical trial investigating ways to prevent newborns from contracting HIV through breast milk is set to proceed in South Africa, following a court judgement overruling the apparent reluctance of the country’s drugs regulators to let the trial go ahead.

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