Eleven receive A.I.D.S. drug
PA Wellington Eleven patients in New Zealand are now receiving tbe expensive A.I.D.S. drug, AZT, says the Health Department’s manager of medicines and benefits, Dr Ralph Riseley. The drug cost $16,000 for each patient for a year’s supply, according to the A.LD.S. Advisory Council chairman, Dr Richard Meech, and that price did not include hidden costs of follow-up checks and laboratory tests. Meech said the drug
was available only to patients with diagnosed or suspected pneumocystis pneumonia — a kind of pneumonia that is usually rare, but common in people with their immunity reduced by the A.I.D.S. virus.
AZT stands for azidothymldine, although it is also called zidovudine, and marketed under the name, Retrovir.
It is the only drug found so far to slow the spread of the virus through a patient’s immune system, although its makers Wellcome have said the drug cure < tl f
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