Drug-Resistant HIV in Europeans Measured
About 10% of Europeans infected with HIV contract a strain that is resistant to at least one AIDS drug, according to the first large-scale study of the problem.
The study, led by scientists at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, involved 1,633 HIV patients from 17 European countries. It found that 9.6% of newly diagnosed HIV patients in Europe are infected with a virus resistant to at least one drug. About 2% had an infection that does not respond to two or more types of AIDS drugs. An earlier study in the United States showed that at least half of all Americans under care for HIV infection carry drug-resistant viruses.
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