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...took Ho only a few weeks to figure out why soluble CD4 didn't work. The early tests on the treatment were done on weak strains of virus grown in the lab. Somehow wild viruses could tell which CD4 molecules were decoys. Ho and the rest of the AIDS scientists had just learned a valuable lesson. They would have to test all their potential treatments on viruses that infected real patients...
...towels while remaining a fashion challenge for Oscar-night actresses in strapless gowns. Elizabeth Taylor and Sharon Stone impressively share the fund-raising crown; Sharon was barely a B-movie starlet when the epidemic began. AIDS awareness has become ubiquitous, and the possible new breakthrough in protease cocktails has somehow become a component of the AIDS industry--perhaps a miracle or maybe just another item on the boardroom agenda...
Even as some people struggle to get the drugs, others throw them away. With further breakthroughs reportedly on the way, there are AIDS patients concerned that today's medications will somehow make their bodies less responsive to better ones tomorrow. "There are 18 new treatments in the pipeline," says Teresa Nieves, 30, an AIDS patient in Brooklyn, New York, who wouldn't take the three-drug cocktail her doctor prescribed. "What I fear is that using this concoction will disqualify me for more promising ones...
AIDS has increased gay visibility and even gay acceptance; AIDS is the Chorus Line of epidemics. The new drug treatments and those still in the pipeline are tremendously promising, although the catchphrase "reduced viral load" somehow sounds like a favorite band of Beavis and Butt-head. A generation has been all but erased. AIDS has paradoxically proved that gay lives matter, that the days when President Reagan refused even to say "AIDS" in public are past. Perhaps the post-plague years will soon begin and all those quilt panels and ribbons and T shirts will become relics or even flea...
...strange nation. We Americans live in a state of constant optimism that somehow we are going to change human nature. We think we can put men and women together in a high-stress, testosterone-charged, macho environment and expect them to stay away from one another. That's nonsense. We're not going to change human behavior. DON YARROLL Glen Ellyn, Illinois...