AIDS History And Treatment
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In 1981 a man in Los Angeles was diagnosed as having a rare form of pneumonia, known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. He had a very low number of T-4 helper cells, and died soon after. The doctors were puzzled at the time, but they would later discover that this was one of the first cases of a ....
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.... people have already died from AIDS, and one million others are HIV + (Davis, 6). Millions more will perish from this plague unless a cure is found. Treatment for AIDS is now available, but it delays the process rather than eliminating the virus entirely. The three most common forms of treatment now are azidothymidine (AZT), protease inhibitors, and multidrug therapies. These drugs have been successful in prolonging patients' lives because they interfere with the duplication of HIV within ....
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