Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AIDS was all over but the shouting. New figures from the United Nations Wednesday ought to wipe away such complacency, however: It turns out that we've underestimated the number of AIDS cases by a third. Indeed, as many as 1 in every 100 sexually active adults has the HIV virus...
...estimated the daily spread of new HIV infections at 8,500. He said by the year 2000 scientists expect 50 million people to be infected with the virus...
...past two years, with new knowledge and new therapies, it has become possible to control HIV so effectively that the virus is no longer detectable in the blood of the infected person," he added...
Through research, Ho's researchers found that HIV protease inhibitors stopped the propagation of the virus. They then combined anti-viral drugs already in use with the protease inhibitors and administered these "cocktails," as they are commonly called, to HIV-infected patients...
...Unmatched were the joy and amazement as we watched the level of HIV fall, ever so dramatically," Ho said. "At first, little did we know that we were sitting on top of a fundamental discovery in AIDS research...