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A drug that helps prevent babies from catching the AIDS virus at birth can also protect them while nursing, researchers reported on Monday.

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Feb. 4, 2008, 4:39 p.m.
"Nevirapine is already widely used to protect babies at birth. A single dose given to the mother as she goes into labor and to the baby at birth cuts transmission by 47 percent."
"But babies continue to become infected after birth, via their mothers' breast milk, which can carry the virus. In many developing countries breast-feeding is the only option."
"Dr. Brooks Jackson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and colleagues in Ethiopia, India and Uganda wanted to see if they could safely continue giving the drug to babies for as long as six weeks."

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