By Neenyah Ostrom
New York Native 7 March 1994
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The AZT pushers are at it again. On February 21, the government issued a press release that resulted in a page-one story in the New York Times by Lawrence K. Altman, "In Major Finding, Drug Curbs HIV Infection In Newborns." The press release and article referred to preliminary data- still unpublished and unreleased-from yet another truncated AZT study, AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) 076. This study gave AZT to HIV-positive pregnant women (80 percent of whom are black and/or Hispanic) to see if it stopped them from having HIV-positive babies. According to the government dispatch, it does. Additionally, this newest piece of press-release science is being used as another argument for instituting some form of mandatory HIV testing.
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