Quick Hits: New Strawberry-Flavored H.I.V. Drugs Improve Infant Compliance

According to a recent article from The New York Times, roughly 80,000 young children die from AIDS each year, partly because their medications are difficult to take. The current options are either hard pills or nasty-tasting syrups, neither or which are particularly desirable for kids. However, Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla just announced a new formula that makes the drugs taste like strawberry, thereby increasing the likelihood of compliance.