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Commentary
Nature Medicine 9, 839 - 843 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0703-839
HIV and AIDS: 20 years of science
Anthony S Fauci1
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2520, USA.
Abstract
From the identification of HIV as the agent that causes AIDS, to the development of effective antiretroviral drugs, the scientific achievements in HIV research in the past 20 years have been formidable. Some of the other important areas of accomplishment include the development of blood tests for HIV and increased knowledge of the molecular virology, epidemiology and pathogenesis of this virus.
The pandemic of HIV infection, the cause of AIDS, is clearly the defining medical and public health issue of our generation and ranks among the greatest infectious disease scourges in history1. Since the world first became aware of AIDS in the summer of 1981 (refs.
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