Median survival after infection is more than 10 years, so most people infected after 1990 lived to see the rollout of effective treatment in the second half of that decade. Magic got access a little earlier than most, but not by much. www.newsweek.com/magic-johnso...
January 31, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Median survival after infection is more than 10 years, so most people infected after 1990 lived to see the rollout of effective treatment in the second half of that decade. Magic got access a little earlier than most, but not by much. www.newsweek.com/magic-johnso...
The problem was not that the medical world didn't understand his "questions" - it was that they simply demonstrated his profound ignorance of the disease. eg:
January 31, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The problem was not that the medical world didn't understand his "questions" - it was that they simply demonstrated his profound ignorance of the disease. eg:
Magic Johnson started combination antiretroviral therapy with David Ho in 1994. AZT was still part of his combo treatment as late as 2011. www.newsweek.com/magic-johnso...
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Magic Johnson started combination antiretroviral therapy with David Ho in 1994. AZT was still part of his combo treatment as late as 2011. www.newsweek.com/magic-johnso...
A few years after starting the cross sectional study she also started a separate prospective study - to examine the effectiveness of safer sex interventions. It was in this different study that no transmissions occurred.
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A few years after starting the cross sectional study she also started a separate prospective study - to examine the effectiveness of safer sex interventions. It was in this different study that no transmissions occurred.
There is an unfortunate error in the first sentence of the abstract. Padian did conduct a 10 year study of heterosexual HIV transmission "to examine rates of and risk factors", but it was *cross-sectional* (retrospective), not prospective.
December 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
There is an unfortunate error in the first sentence of the abstract. Padian did conduct a 10 year study of heterosexual HIV transmission "to examine rates of and risk factors", but it was *cross-sectional* (retrospective), not prospective.
Fauci wrote an editorial in the same issue as the Oleske report, and he did, in fact, consider vertical transmission as a possibility. But no on knew for sure: it was very early days.
January 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Fauci wrote an editorial in the same issue as the Oleske report, and he did, in fact, consider vertical transmission as a possibility. But no on knew for sure: it was very early days.