This page was updated on October 10, 1998
"NEW DRUGS CUT AIDS DEATHS BY NEARLY HALF IN U.S. IN '97"
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - "New drugs helped reduce the number of AIDS deaths in the United States by 47 percent last year...the lowest rate since 1987."
That's good news indeed! But they don't tell us much about WHY such a drastic drop in one year, or WHY all of a sudden the deaths from AIDS dipped below the 1987 levels.
You'll understand if you read the article on this webpage. It has to do with eliminating the drug called AZT from the treatment of AIDS patients - a drug that has been causing AIDS (not curing AIDS) since it was introduced in 1986, literally killing hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting victims.
Yes, it's great that after 11 years of homicide by drugs, something's being done. But many of the basic questions remain, like....