Many patients taking efavirez (Sustiva) experience long-term CNS side-effects

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Many patients taking efavirez experience long-term CNS side-effects

A significant number of patients taking efavirenz (Sustiva) as a component of their antiretroviral therapy experience chronic neuropsychiatric symptoms, according to a small Australian study published in the November edition of HIV Medicine. Neuropsychiatric side-effects are commonly regarded as a short-term toxicity of efavirenz therapy, but the patients in the study had been taking the drug for at least six months, and were compared with comparable patients taking long-term HIV therapy that did not include efavirenz.

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