Infant Size, Birth Weight Not Affected By Anti-HIV Drug Use During Pregnancy

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Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of shorter length than infants born to women who used anti-HIV drug regimens that do not include tenofovir during pregnancy, according to findings from a National Institutes of Health network study. However, at 1 year of age, children born to the tenofovir-treated mothers were slightly shorter and had slightly smaller head circumference - about 1 centimeter each, on average - than were infants whose mothers did not take tenofovir...
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