NEWS ON THE FIGHT FOR BETTER TREATMENT, A VACCINE, AND A CURE FOR AIDS On a Darkling Plain — The Years of Despair Before the Discovery of HAART
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This is the second in a series looking back at the first two decades of TAG’s work to speed up AIDS research. In Part I: TAG’s early campaigns to reform the National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIDS research, boost the federal budget, and revitalize HIV basic science research. Here we look at the clinical science of AIDS before the discovery of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 1995–96, and how TAG responded to the needs of people with AIDS.
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