12 of 75 people treated in a French study were “functionally cured” of HIV, not experiencing a return of the virus even after stopping antiretroviral therapy
AZT (zidovudine) is the first drug available to treat HIV.
Accordingto reporting in “The New York Times”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports on AIDS for the first time
The HIV-1 strain of virus emerged to circulate in Kinshasa, closely related to a virus found in chimpanzees