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There are other problems. Even if the treatment works, it isn't practical. HIV-positive patients would have to start taking the drugs immediately after infection, before they realize they're sick. And even if the drug cocktails can be made to work in the later stages of infection, they are far too expensive to do much good for the 20 million people in the developing world who are infected with HIV. In the long run, scientists believe, only an AIDS vaccine will stop the global epidemic...
...chief medical resident at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Across town at UCLA, Gottlieb had identified a new syndrome that seemed to target gay men. Each of the cases was different, but all had one thing in common: whatever was making the men sick had singled out the T cells for destruction. Eventually the body's battered defenses couldn't shake off even the most innocuous microbial intruder. The men were dying from what doctors termed opportunistic infections, such as Pneumocystis pneumonia, which attacks the lungs, and toxoplasmosis, which often ravages the brain...
...according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Doctors talk about a rising incidence of HIV-positive teenage girls, who get the virus from infected men. They talk about a "second wave" among younger gay men. For those over, say, 35, tending to a sick friend or being tended has been a nearly universal experience. For those in their 20s, it's a rarity. When the epidemic becomes unreal, the libido is unbolted. Jason is a 19-year-old Los Angeles sales clerk who learned that he was infected at 16. There were AIDS education programs at his high...
...past, HIV-negative guys didn't want to date positive guys," says Jim Brudner, an AIDS activist in New York. "Now positive guys with 500 T cells don't want to date guys with fewer. Everybody is terrified of becoming a caretaker for a partner who gets sick...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee: The man convicted of slaying civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been hospitalized in critical condition for liver failure and may be near death. James Earl Ray, who has been sick for more than a year, was moved from a prison hospital to Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital on Saturday night, according to prison officials. Ray, 68, confessed to the April 1968 shooting of King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Three days later, Ray recanted his story and has been fighting for a new court hearing ever since...