Thursday, November 17, 2011

including AZT and DDI, for treating people with AIDS."

"This new drug is not a cure, said James Mason, M.D., assistant secretary for health and head of the Public Health service, but it constitutes an important addition to the expanding group of antiviral drugs currently available, including AZT and DDI, for treating people with AIDS."

The CDC, under pressure from patients and doctors, decided to revise its definition of AIDS. The previous list of illnesses that defined AIDS had been criticised for some time because it did not include many of the conditions most often seen in HIV positive women and injecting drug users. The new definition would take effect from the start of 1993.120 121

The VIII International Conference was successfully held in Amsterdam rather than in its originally planned venue in Boston due to the U.S. travel policies on HIV positive people.122

In France four health care officials were brought to trial accused of allowing the distribution, between 1980 and 1985, of blood products known to be contaminated with HIV.123 124 The former director of the transfusion service, Michel Garretta, was sentenced to four years in prison, as was Jean-Pierre Allain, the former head of research at the transfusion centre. The third doctor, Jacques Roux, was given a four-year suspended sentence, whilst the fourth doctor was acquitted.125C

In response to rising HIV prevalence, the Indian government decided to allocate $100 million to the National AIDS Control project over the next five years, which amounted to more than 15% of the national health budget. Most of this money would come from a World Bank loan.126 Experts predicted that within five years there might be more people affected by AIDS in India than in any other country.

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