SUPPLEMENTS GIVEN EARLY IN HIV INFECTION CAN HELP IMPROVE IMMUNITY AND SLOW DISEASE PROGRESSION

H-I-V infection attacks the immune system. In many parts of Africa, patients with H-I-V infection, also have vitamin deficiencies. A new study examined whether giving a multivitamin and the mineral selenium could help improve immunity and slow progression of H-I-V in recently diagnosed patients. Catherine Dolf explains in this week’s JAMA