Lopinavir-ritonavir made no difference in short-term mortality rates, hospital stay lengthsor illness progression to ventilation. The results do not include patients on ventilators because of how difficult it is to administer drugs to them
25 years ago this month (June), a landmark U.S. medical trial began testing a drug that would prove to be the first effective treatment of HIV/AIDS. It spawned a generation of drugs that saved countless lives and is still helping to prevent the spread of the virus today. VOA’s Carolyn Presutti takes us back to a time when the AIDS epidemic raged unchecked, and introduces us to a man who would not be alive today without the advent of these drugs