New drugs help battle HIV

From Seattle, at the 9th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

Three potential drugs in development rely on novel tactics for attacking HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

A compound dubbed BMS-806 blocks the entry of HIV into cells, reports Richard J. Colonno of Bristol-Myers Squibb in Wallingford, Conn. In test tubes, the compound inhibits the replication of HIV, including strains already resistant to other drugs.