Children on ART for HiV often have side effects like peripheral neuropathy.

What is it about?

Stavudine is used to treat children with HIV. Over the course of treatment clinical (tingling , numbness ) and electrophysical symptoms (on Nerve Conduction studies) occur in these children. We attempted to document the findings so that therapeutic interventions to minimise the same could be planned

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Why is it important?

Zinc supplementation helps to mitigate the (neurological) side effects related to ART in children. This is a randomised trial to see the effect