4The Daily Tar HeelMonday, October 30, 1989
Company to offer ADOS treatment free to child! ireo
By JENNIFER BLACKVVELL
Staff Writer
The Burroughs Wellcome Co. an
nounced Thursday that it would begin
.offering the anti-AIDS drug Retrovir
(formerly AZT) free to HIV-infected
- children between the ages of 3 months
t. and 12 years.
The Food and Drug Administration
-. (FDA) officially authorized wider use
of the drug in treating children last
week. Up until then, Retrovir was only
'available for adults or for children
through testing centers.
Burroughs Wellcome, in collabora
tion with the National Institute of Al
lergy and Infectious Diseases, will
provide Retrovir Syrup to any child
who meets certain criteria and whose
physician and parentguardian agree to
enroll the child in the FDA's Treatment
IND program. After physicians com
plete the appropriate forms, they will
receive the syrup to give to patients.
The Treatment IND program is de
signed to expand the access to Retrovir
for children, said Sandra Nusinoff
Lehrman, head of antimicrobial ther
apy at Burroughs Wellcome. "It will
help pediatric patients receive therapy
with Retrovir until it is fully approved
for this use by the FDA."
The Treatment IND program enables
drug companies like Burroughs
Wellcome to make a potentially life
saving drug available to critically ill
patients prior to marketing approval.
Recent studies on the effects of
Retrovir convinced the FDA to ap
prove a more widespread use.
Retrov ir can halt the progression of
the disease, prolong life and improve
overall quality of life for AIDS pa
tients, said Katherine Wilfert, profes
sor of pediatrics and head of the Pediat
ric AIDS Center at Duke University.
A study recently conducted by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
indicates that Retrovir may prolong by
up to one -half the life of adults who are
infected with the virus but who have
not shown symptoms, according to
Leslie Sink, a press off icer for the NIH.
"At this point, the medical commu
nity thinks (Retrovir) will be beneficial
to children," said Jill Duval, executive
director of the AIDS Service Project in
Durham. Offering the drugs for free is
"certainly a positive move," she said.
The Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta reported that out .of a total of
109,167 reported cases of AIDS as of
September 1989, 1,859 of those were
children, people under 13 years of age
at the time of diagnosis. About 80 per
cent of the children were infected with
AIDS through their mothers, either
while in the womb or in the birth proc
ess. Most of the reported cases are among
children under the age of 5. Most of the
children infected at birth die by the time
they reach 4 12 years of age if they are
not treated, Wilfert said. The center
reported that 1,013 children with re
ported cases of AIDS have died.
The Division of Health Services in
the N.C. Department of Human Re
sources reported that as of Oct. 23,
1989, 1,060 cases of AIDS have been
recorded in the state. Twenty-three of
those cases were children, and 10 chil
dren have died of the virus since the
study began.
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A utility 'rate reduction for Duke
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On June 30, a hearing panel for the
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