VibeJiver

When I was a young doctor in the 1980s, I cared for several health-care workers who had acquired HIV infection after an occupational exposure — a needlestick, a cut, a laboratory accident. No effective treatment was available then, but I would see them every month and we would talk about the latest “cures” hitting the news. Some we tried and when zidovudine, the first approved medication, became widely available, we tried that too. But each person died, sooner rather than later.