a safety section Tramont later admitted having ghostwritten. Tramont had begun with a straightforward revision of the safety review committee’s conclusion, altering it from “unfavorable” to “favorable.” Tramont’s purged draft boldly concluded, “Single-dose Nevirapine is a safe and effective drug for preventing mother-to-infant transmission of HIV. This has been proven by multiple studies, including the HIVNET 012 study conducted in Uganda.” Tramont began massaging data sets to conform the rest of the report to this adjusted outcome. Tramont dismissed concerns raised by Luzar about pediatric
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