Is cooking food in iron pots an appropriate solution for the control of anaemia in developing countries?
There is no evidence that iron cooking pots are effective against IDA. Further research is warranted to determine whether the iron leached from the pots is bioavailable.
Only half of the naïve patients who began antiretroviral therapy having >500,000 copies/mL HIV-RNA had virological success at 12 months. The success was reached faster using the RAL-containing four-drugs regimen, suggesting that strengthening the initial regimen could be an option in patients with very high viral load to improve virological response. Probability of HIV viral load below the limit of detection in naïve HIV-1 patients with viral loads >500,000 copies/mL treated with a 4-drugs regimen containing raltegravir versus standard therapy with PI/ or NNRTI.