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In the early 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic began, AIDS patients rarely lived longer than a few years. But today, people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have longer and healthier lives. The main reason is that there are many effective medicines to fight the infection.
Most medicines fall into one of the following three categories
While these medicines help people with HIV, they are not perfect. They do not cure HIV infection or AIDS. People with HIV infection still have the virus in their bodies, so even when they are taking medicines they can transmit HIV to others through unprotected sex and needle sharing.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Adventure Medical Kits - First aid kits for wilderness medicine, family outings, travel, sports and home emergencies.
First Aid Products Online - Industrial, specialty, travel, EMT/Responder and sports kits. Also wound care, medicinals, gloves, masks, outdoor care products, eye irrigating solutions, tongue depressors, and cold packs.
Otis Clapp Pharmaceuticals - Analgesics, cold medicine, cough medication, internal relief aids, and topical treatments. Includes product glossary and quality summary.
Mailbox Medicine, Inc. - Generic medications packaged in dose of use packets, safe, sanitary and convenient. Complete line of first-aid products and kits.
Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance and Inspection - From the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Aviation Medicine. Site includes documents, research and development, training, job aids, and conference information.
Institute for New Medicine - Clinical trial summary for treatment of progressive multifocal leukoencephetalopathy (PML) and related scientific information about AIDS, PML, and psoriasis using Peptide T at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Hanessian Group - Total synthesis. Medicinal chemistry and drug design. Immunochemistry and drug targeting. Glycosidic linkage in life processes. Computer aided chemistry and molecular modeling.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Information and index on toxicology, environmental health, HIV, and AIDS. Search toxicology and chemical information databases from Specialized Information Services (SIS).
Medicine Rules Corporation - Provides decision support tools for mental health professionals to aid in diagnostic evaluation and treatment. Includes online ordering.
Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Biopharmaceutical company focused on saving lives utilizing Samaritan Laboratories, Georgetown University's School of Medicine, to identify and design drugs for Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer and cholesterol and process resulting "drug candidates" through the FDA to obtain approval.