Beyond the Buyers Club: The Miracle Drugs That Tamed the AIDS Epidemic For the first six years of the AIDS epidemic, the only advice available to patients was to wait. From 1981, when the first AIDS outbreak was recorded, until 1987, when the FDA approved AZT, the first antiretroviral medication, more than 40,000 Americans waited until their immune systems collapsed and their bodies succumbed to opportunistic infections. They died agonizing deaths. Read more...
Nov. 1, 2013 - Deadspin
Patrick Holford in EducationGuardian.co.uk Holford said: "AZT, the first prescribable anti-HIV drug, is potentially harmful, and proving less effective than vitamin C," and referred to the paper as proof.
Nkosi Johnson in International Herald Tribune Johnson said he wished that the government would "start giving AZT to pregnant HIV mothers to help stop the virus being passed on to their babies."