Posted on 01/07/04
Vitamins found to slow AIDS
Multivitamin supplements can delay the need for anti-retroviral drugs in people with HIV-AIDS, new research has found.In an eight-year experiment involving 1,078 Kenyan women, scientists found that vitamins significantly slowed the progression of the infectious disease. They say their findings could be especially important in Africa, where the World Health Organization plans to treat three million people with drug cocktails that have saved the lives of thousands of patients in Western countries.
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