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Originally Posted by mo42
Now I'm wondering if a high dose of AZT right at the time of infection could cure a person infected with HIV for a very short period of time. Like if someone was raped by an HIV-infected person, and they got AZT like the next day. Could this possibly prevent them from ever getting AIDS? Hmm... this could be thesis material, just do some tests with SIV... yeah, that'd work.
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I dont think that would work. AZT is a chemically modified nucleotide (the building blocks that make up DNA) that works by preventing DNA from being replicated. Like some cancer chemotherapy drugs, it affects all cells, regardless of whether they are HIV infected (in fact, AZT was first developed as a cancer drug, and there's some evidence that it helps with some cancers, some evidence that it actually causes some cancers). Anyway, your idea doesn't sound too likely, I'm sorry to say. Using AZT immediately after HIV exposure would just prolong the inevitable...