Using Antiretroviral to Prevent HIV Could Result in Drug Resistance If Routine Screening Is Not Done, Cleveland Clinic Study Finds

ScienceDaily (May 25, 2010) — Their scientific methods may have been quite different, but their conclusions were not. In asking whether drug resistance could be a problem if antiretroviral (ARV) drugs become a mainstay for HIV prevention, two studies -- one involving a mathematical model and the other assays of cells and tissue -- arrived at the same answer. Resistance could happen if people who are unknowingly already infected use the approach.

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