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On February 5, 2013, ViiV Healthcare announced that the company has decided to stop the development program investigating its experimental non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) lersivirine.

Pregnancy does not increase the risk of nevirapine (Viramune) associated side-effects, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the online edition of AIDS. Investigators found that incidence of liver and skin toxicities – the major side-effects of the drug  – were high, but no higher than the rate observed in the

A team of Australian researchers has found that tenofovir and, to a lesser extent, other drugs from the nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) class, impairs an enzyme that slows down or stops ageing processes in immune cells in the test tube. They also found that, in people living with HIV, a marker of cell age called