Who do International medical guidelines call for to use a combination of AIDS drugs?

International medical guidelines call for pregnant women with advanced HIV to get a combination of AIDS drugs including nevirapine to prevent passing their infection on to their newborns during delivery. But in poor countries, combinations have been expensive and nevirapine has often been used alone, since studies have shown that a single dose can cut the transmission rate in half.

India’s Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is appealing for calm after a mob in the state of Gujarat burned a train carrying Hindu activists. The attackers were said to be Muslems. The attack killed 57 people. Officials have ordered a curfew in the town of Godhra where the attack happened. The train carried members of a Hindu nationalist group from a gathering in the northern town of Ayodhya. Local officials say the Hindus were shouting statements that angered Muslems in Godhra. The Hindu group wants to build a holy place in Ayodhya on the ruins of an ancient mosque. Hindus destroyed the Islamic center 10 years ago.