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Low-dose stavudine trials: a public health priority for developing countries

W D Francois Venter, Steve Innes, Mark Cotton
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine | Vol 13, No 1 | a154 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v13i1.154 | © 2012 W D Francois Venter, Steve Innes, Mark Cotton | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 15 December 2012 | Published: 13 March 2012

About the author(s)

W D Francois Venter, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (WRHI), Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa
Steve Innes, Children’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (KID-CRU), Tygerberg Children’s Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa
Mark Cotton, Children’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (KID-CRU), Tygerberg Children’s Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa

Abstract

The debate around relooking at stavudine dosing, both in terms of the adult low-dose stavudine study and more broadly, is welcome. The study being proposed to evaluate low-dose stavudine v. tenofovir is a fairly standard placebo-controlled non-inferiority study. The study design is not controversial; however, the choice of study drug has attracted critical attention.

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