Efficacy of Six-Week Extended-Dose Nevirapine Varies by Infant Birth Weight with Greatest Relative Efficacy in Low Birth Weight Infants.

Latest World Health Organization guidelines recommend weight-based nevirapine prophylaxis for all HIV-exposed infants in resource-limited settings, yet low birth weight (LBW) infants (< 2500 g) have been understudied. Using data from the NIH-funded India six-week extended-dose nevirapine (SWEN) s...

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Main Authors: Nikhil Gupte, Aarti Kinikar, Katherine N McIntire, Ramesh Bhosale, Sandesh Patil, Nishi Suryavanshi, Vidya Mave, Vandana Kulkarni, Robert C Bollinger, Amita Gupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5045160?pdf=render