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Linda Grinberg, 45, of Brentwood, California, was battling fungal infections, cytomegalovirus and exhaustion when doctors put her on a multidrug regimen against her HIV infection. "It's given me back my life," she says. "A year ago, it was difficult even to get dressed. I really felt I was at the end of the line...
...action against the epidemic, Dr. Jonas Salk suggested that vaccine researchers were on the wrong track, and the actress Elizabeth Taylor blasted President Bush for not doing enough about AIDS. Delegates heard reports on the surging costs of treatment, warnings about the threat of AIDS-associated infections such as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and alarming projections that AIDS will become more of a heterosexual disease. The infection rate among women is rising and will pass the rate in men by the year...
That view appears to have been overly optimistic. Last week prison authorities in New York State revealed that 13 inmates and one guard have died of a form of tuberculosis that proved impervious to antibiotic therapy. It was the sixth major outbreak of so-called multidrug-resistant TB in the U.S. in the past two years. So far, these cases have been largely confined to AIDS patients and others with weakened immune systems. But experts fear that the disease, which kills about half those it afflicts, could spread to other groups. "TB has once again become a real killer," said...