INFORMATION ON EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE FOR PEOPLE WITH HIV-RELATED ILLNESS
INTRODUCTION
It is important to understand that, at this time, there is no therapy that has been proven to be an effective means of halting or reversing the underlying disease process that causes AIDS or ARC. The time-tested scientific procedures that are normally followed to positively establish the value of any new drug, agent or treatment may take many years. The fact that medical science offers an incomplete understanding of how this illness “works” makes the process of treatment evaluation more complex and time consuming.
As this article goes to press, azidothymidine (AZT) is the only drug or agent that has been approved or licensed in the United States as a treatment for AIDS. This approval
