Twenty-five years ago a research team led by Luc Montagnier at the French Pasteur Institution in Paris was responsible for identifying HIV, thus changing the face of AIDS/HIV research, prevention and management. When approached by a colleague for help on determining the cause of AIDS, Montagnier eagerly accepted the challenge and he and his team [...]

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Didn’t our mothers always tell us not to always believe what we read? In a world that seems to be propelled by information found on the internet, it is hard to distinguish between reality and complete and total fiction. How many times have I been forwarded e-mails by friends that detail a child’s abduction down [...]

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Each year in the United States, over 55,000 people contract HIV. Considering the wealth of AIDS/HIV information that has been dispersed since the early 1980s when HIV first arrived on the scene in the US, the statistics are staggering. Currently, both the International AIDS Society and the government recommend that a patient newly infected with [...]

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