Expanding Access to Investigational Therapies for HIV Infection and AIDS

by Institute of Medicine, Eve K. Nichols, Roundtable For Th Institute Of Medicine, et al.

The call for a "parallel track" for AIDS drug development--a proposal that would allow the early distribution of AIDS drugs to large numbers of patients in parallel with the conventional clinical trials that assess the drugs' safety and efficacy--has sparked controversy within the scientific community. Questions have arisen about the risks to patients of such a plan, about its potential effect on the successful completion of standard controlled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309044901
• ISBN13: 9780309044905
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 84 Pages