A drug combination commonly given to people with HIV, the AIDS virus, can knock out precancerous growths on a woman’s cervix, a new study indicates.
Previous research had suggested that HIV-positive women are particularly susceptible to such growths, called squamous intraepithelial lesions. The condition is detectable by a Pap test and typically appears in women between the ages of 25 and 35.
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