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...years ago, AIDS has baffled the experts. UCLA's Gottlieb was among the first physicians in the country to notice that something strange was going on in the winter of 1981. In the space of just three months, he treated four patients with an unusual lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. PCP is what doctors term an "opportunistic infection," one that strikes people when their immune response is weakened. Typical victims are frail cancer patients and transplant recipients. Gottlieb's four patients departed strikingly from this pattern. Though tests showed their immune systems were severely depressed, all four were young...
...Doctors in Los Angeles alert the Centers for Disease Control to five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in gay men, one of the earliest signs of the AIDS epidemic...
...People who have AIDS are living about a year longer than they were at the start of the epidemic, largely because of improved treatments for Pneumocystis carinii, an AIDS-related pneumonia...
Derek Hodel, 30, runs a New York City consumer organization that helps people purchase anti-AIDS drugs. For the past three months, his People with AIDS Health Group has assisted hundreds of sufferers from the viral malady in importing aerosol pentamidine, a powerful drug that effectively prevents Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the leading cause of AIDS-related death. A month's supply of the chemical retails for $26 in Britain, where drug costs are regulated by the government; in the U.S. the price is $150. Says Hodel: "The idea that people have to import medications to get a good price...
...introduction of AZT, survival at 18 months jumped to 62.9%. Says Michael Callen, a singer and songwriter who has had the disease for seven years: "We need to change our conception of AIDS. Not everyone dies of AIDS." Today about 70% of all AIDS deaths result from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. But studies reported in Montreal confirm that pentamidine inhaled directly into the lungs is dramatically effective in preventing the pneumonia from developing. Federal health officials are so impressed by the drug that they will recommend that those infected with the virus start monthly aerosol treatments as soon as their immune...