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A decade earlier it had seemed "highly unlikely an effective treatment would become available in the foreseeable future", but a vigorous research programme has identified several therapeutic "targets", and the combination of two, and then three, drugs in what became known as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy brought mortality rates crashing down. A recently diagnosed 25-year-old can now expect to survive three decades or longer, a life expectancy comparable to that for people with insulin- dependent diabetes. So credit where it is due, particularly to the much-maligned drugs industry that made it all possible.
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How Not to Defeat Aids
How not to defeat Aids James Le Fanu The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of Aids Elizabeth Pisani Granta Books, 288pp, £17.99
A couple of years ago Britain's leading HIV specialist Professor Brian Gazzard wrote an editorial in the...See the full content of this document
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