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Activists angry at fallout from AIDS drug trial allegations

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The trial, which is called HIVNET 012 and was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), tested whether short courses of the drug nevirapine could prevent pregnant women in Uganda from passing the disease to their babies. But in December last year, a series of articles by the Associated Press alleged that there were serious flaws with record-keeping in the trial after it started in 1997.

The NIH, backed by many scientists and AIDS activists, says the flaws were not serious enough to undermine the study's finding that the drug regimen works. To clarify the situation, the agency asked the US Institute of Medicine to conduct an independent study of the issue. Their report is expected to be published in late March.

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