HIV: Extra Drug Fails to Improve on Triple Therapy

HIV: Extra Drug Fails to Improve on Triple Therapy

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6 January 2006

Roy Gulick, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Although the logic in antiretroviral HIV therapy has, for some years, been that two drugs are better than one; and three are better than two, this h

Roy Gulick, Weill Cornell Medical College, New YorkAlthough the logic in antiretroviral HIV therapy has, for some years, been that two drugs are better than one; and three are better than two, this has not continued. A late breaking study involving 700 patients presented on this at ICAAC found that four drugs are not better than three, but that a worrying relationship exists between race and time to virologic failure.

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