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The American Academy of Pediatrics says more child-friendly HIV drugs are needed, including smaller pills and three-in-one tablets for kids, to help address a crisis affecting more than 2 million youngsters globally.

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STONERS
April 2, 2007, 12:53 a.m.
In parts of Africa, AIDS kills about half of HIV-infected children before they reach the age of 2, said Dr. Peter Havens, chairman of an academy AIDS committee. By contrast, about 98 percent of HIV-infected U.S. children are expected to live to adulthood and have nearly normal life spans, thanks to readily available virus-fighting drugs.
Some HIV drugs come as bottled liquids that require refrigeration. That poses a problem in rural countries, where some families travel for days by foot to get several months' supply of bottled medicine that weighs as much as the infected child, said Havens, an infectious disease specialist at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Pills pose a separate problem. Caregivers sometimes break or crush adult-dose tablets to give youngsters smaller amounts, but that results in inexact and inappropriate doses, the policy statement says.
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itsme2
April 2, 2007, 5:44 p.m.
These kids have enough to deal with, lets make thier lives a little easier.