For patients with HIV in RF is developed a new drug antiretroviral therapy, representing an injection. Living with HIV have to take daily pills – new injection will be sufficient to do this once a month.
Currently, a new drug being tested at the Central research Institute of epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, reported “Izvestia”. According to the head of group of development of new methods of diagnostics of HIV and viral hepatitis Dmitry Kireev in interview to the edition, the medicine is made on the basis of slowly spent in the body of nanosuspension. Enough to do one injection a month – by nanosuspension concentration of the drug will be kept at the desired level. The scientist added that the injection method will reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and minimize side effects.
The head of the Federal AIDS centre Vadim Pokrovsky, in turn, said that clinical trials of a new drug will last for a year, and to start its production after that will be possible only after three years. For the first time, according to Pokrovsky, the medicine will be expensive in its development took at least 1 billion, and these costs producers will try to compensate. Over time, after about 3-5 years, the price of the drug will decrease, the expert believes.
Today the easiest way to treat HIV is just one pill a day, usually efavirenz, he said “Eastern European and Central Asian Union of people living with HIV,” Kirill Barsky. This drug has very unpleasant side effects that affect the Central nervous system, and some patients even refuse to take it. But the new drug, according to Barsky, patients with HIV can not count. That a cure will be significantly more expensive, it is unlikely to fall in the public procurement system. Doctors today want to prescribe to prescribe free more modern medications.
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