The biggest AIDS story: How drug company scientists transformed the disease

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In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, ACSH’s Dr. Josh Bloom comments on what should be especially noted this World AIDS Day — the success drug company researchers have had in developing anti-retroviral drugs to treat HIV and AIDS:

This World AIDS Day, some 30 years after the epidemic began, we should recognize how the hard work of thousands of dedicated scientists transformed the most dreaded disease of the late 20th century into a chronic, manageable condition...

Although universities and government made significant contributions, the campaign against HIV was waged primarily by the pharmaceutical industry -- the only one with the knowledge and resources to develop new drugs. Never before has a virulent, fatal disease been so rapidly brought to heel. Instead of the usual drug-company bashing, today calls for at least a quiet “Thanks.”