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June E. Osborn, MD

JAMA. 2008;300(5):581-583.

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Once upon a time, there was a world without AIDS—it seems so long ago. In the past 3 decades since first recognition of the new virus and syndrome, millions of lives have been lost or thwarted by debilitating illness or by orphanhood, and there is a sure promise of many millions of damaged lives to come. Looking back, it is astonishing how much progress has been made. What had been a devastating lethal disease caused by the new human retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) yielded to intense efforts to devise therapies that prolonged the lives of young people in their prime. With the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) in 1996,¹ it was tempting to hope that science was close to vanquishing the new foe: AIDS had been converted into a manageable chronic disease.

But the advent of the new pathogen coincided with times . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: President Emerita, Josiah Macy, Jr Foundation, Falls Church, Virginia.

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