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[image: Pakistan&acute;s captain Shoaib Malik, talks during the Twenty20
World Cricket Championship media briefing in Johannesburg, South Africa,
Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007.
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[image: Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako smile at wellwishers
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*Japanese press turns on Crown
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 *Kareena plans to visit
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[image: An infant breastfeeding
(dn1)]<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23162402-12335,00.html>

*HIV Drug Makes Breast-feeding Safer*


*A DRUG that helps prevent babies from catching the AIDS virus at birth can
also protect them while nursing, according to researchers.*
HIV-infected women who took the drug nevirapine while they breast-fed their
babies were half as likely to give the virus to their newborns, the
researchers told a meeting in Boston of AIDS experts.

Nevirapine is already widely used to protect babies at birth. A single dose
given to the mother as she goes into labour and to the baby at birth cuts
transmission by 47 per cent.

But babies continue to become infected after birth, via their mothers'
breast milk, which can carry the virus. In many developing countries
breast-feeding is the only option.

Dr Brooks Jackson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and colleagues in
Ethiopia, India and Uganda wanted to see if they could safely continue
giving the drug to babies for as long as six weeks.

They gave 2000 new babies either nevirapine or a placebo between 2001 and
2007.

"At six months of age, the risk of postnatal HIV infection or death in
infants who received the six-week regimen was almost one-third less than the
risk for infants given only a single dose," Johns Hopkins said in a
statement.

The World Health Organisation estimates that 150,000 infants are infected
with the AIDS through breast-feeding each year. The fatal and incurable
virus infects 33 million people globally.

Nevirapine is sold under the brand name Viramune by privately held
Boehringer Ingelheim.
*SOURCE : THE AUSTRALIAN.*

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