I remember the beginnings of HIV. I was involved in health care in the mid-1980s. The people of the USA didn't even understand the difference between HIV and AIDS. They were scared. The Gay Community was amazing, it organized and fought the transmission of the disease from the beginning. Then there was the AIDS quilt and the physicans in Boston were the first to run drug trials on a strangly named drug called AZT. The results from the inital studies were so dramatic the trials were ended to save lives and AIDS reserach was begun.
AZT - An AIDS-defining drug (click here)
by Martin Walker (Continuum).
AZT both reflected and reinforced the basic paradigm within which almost all AIDS research was to take place. Nussbaum (1990)
Don't tell me about the people of the USA, I know about the ability of the people of the USA. I am not surprised there is a medical regime that suppresses the deadly virus so people have a longevity of quality of life that also prevents transmission. No HIV transmission from mother to infant is an incredible achievement. WOW. It only took thirty years to begin to vanquish the most deadly virus of the modern era. A Pandemic will end. Well done.
Don't tell me about the people of the USA, I know about the ability of the people of the USA. I am not surprised there is a medical regime that suppresses the deadly virus so people have a longevity of quality of life that also prevents transmission. No HIV transmission from mother to infant is an incredible achievement. WOW. It only took thirty years to begin to vanquish the most deadly virus of the modern era. A Pandemic will end. Well done.
