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Article: Vitamin therapy for African women.(vitamin therapy delays the progression of Acquired Immnue Deficiency Syndrome)(Clinical report)
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Vitamin therapy delays the progression of AIDS in African women, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study (July 1, 2004). Researchers enrolled 1078 HIV-positive, pregnant women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, over a two-year period starting in April 1995. The women were randomly assigned in blocks of 20 to one of four groups. The first group received vitamin A (30 mg of beta carotene, plus 5000 IU of preformed A). The second took a multivitamin without vitamin A, consisting of 20 mg of vitamin B1, 20 mg of vitamin B2, 25 mg of vitamin B6, 100 mg of niacin, 50 [micro]g of vitamin B12, 500 mg of vitamin C, 30 mg of vitamin E, and 0.8 mg of folic acid. The third group ...