AIDS Therapies (Protease Inhibitors)

AIDS Hope Does Not Mean Cure Is Imminent

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 9th, 1996

New drugs, and new combinations of drugs, are slowing HIV and improved tests have made it possible to track the disease better than ever before.

Better treatment has been translating directly into empty hospital beds. The "opportunistic infections" that characterize AIDS, such as Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), sometimes are fading before the very eyes of doctors.

The euphoria that greeted the news in Summer 1996 that HIV had been seemingly eradicated in some patients with a triple dose of strong drugs has now been tempered however. Doctors who whispered the word "cure" have been talking about merely controlling the virus.

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1996-12-09)

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