AIDS 30th Anniversary
AIDS 30th Anniversary
Erika Edwards takes a look at the advances that have been made in the past three decades-- and hurdles yet to conquer.
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" Any newly discovered virus brings with it a certain amount to be here fear the unknown that often spread faster than the illness now. HIV with the virus first not to be limited to -- population. And the perception shattered when celebrities like Magic Johnson announced date to HIV positive I would. Have to retire from the -- The former basketball star is admitting evidence that in -- with HID should no longer be considered a death sentence if it's caught early. Now we'll convene thanks to huge advancement in drug called anti."
" Viral all of -- word about the this thing day essentially."
" Doctor Myron Cohen of the university of north Carolina at Chapel Hill has led 83 and worked with he can in the first HIV he came -- thirty years ago. -- team of researchers recently found that treating HIV infected men and women with a violent and I know that. Can we do unlikely that the virus infected sexual partners -- 90%. Didn't."
" Almost forty years to develop although. Will we needed and prove that it worked."
" Despite invented an awareness aids remains a digitized disease in proportionately affects the African American community people you know still. Struggle with on how to not just do what they can be neat about how to tell others about their HIV status. Free ticket to an aids vaccine has had that back with summit merely offering only small benefit. I'm doing more harm than good. It optically thick of vaccine is gonna keep them. Local I think that kept making a vaccine that offers a substantial a lot of protection of our present production very strong hope for the next thirty years they'd searched a cure. Erika Edwards NBC news."
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