NIH-funded study shows children on newer regimens closer to normal timetable
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2013. For children who have been HIV-infected since birth, current anti-HIV drug regimens may protect against the delays in puberty that had been seen in HIV-infected children taking older regimens, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.
HIV appears to delay puberty. Among children born before 1990, more than 10 percent of HIV-positive girls and boys had not…
