New HIV inhibitor
Drug blocks the most resistant forms of the virus from replicating
A new HIV drug can, when combined with other therapies, suppress even the most drug-resistant strains of the virus that causes AIDS, scientists report in two papers in the July 24 New England Journal of Medicine.
![A new drug can, with other therapies, suppress the most drug-resistant strains of the virus.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/8420.jpg?resize=300%2C148&ssl=1)
The study looks at one group of HIV patients for whom the standard, clinically approved HIV medications are not working.
“These people are very sick, and they have few if any other treatment options because they have a form of HIV that is resistant to just about any clinically approved medication,” says study coauthor Jeffrey L. Lennox, who directs the HIV/AIDS care clinic at GradyMemorialHospital in Atlanta. “Without this new drug, some of the patients might not be with us today.”