title: AIDS: from exact data to beginning of optimism.
abstract: We have compiled epidemiologic data on AIDS which failed to support systematic screening for HIV viruses and which allow a certain optimism regarding the future of the epidemic: there seems to be, in New York, a decrease in the frequency of affected homosexuals, probably because they have followed advice on hygiene. Hence, the systemic, pleiomorphic, HIV infectious disease which might include, in addition to AIDS (35%), the forms where different organs are directly affected, is developing into a heterosexual disease affecting drug addicts and their sexual partners. The therapeutic paradigm is underlined. It is unacceptable that those drugs which have proven effective against the virus, or immune functions, should not be used in combination, on account of some of them still being at a trial stage, that is, administered individually and compared to a placebo, after randomization.
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents