Using Multiple Drugs in Combination Helps Patients with Advanced AIDS

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Since 1996, combination therapies with antiretroviral drugs have been shown to increase length of life in many people with AIDS. (Drugs that …

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  1. Ann Intern Med July 3, 2001 vol. 135 no. 1 S19
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