The Role of Drugs in AIDS

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tuberculosis are called AIDS now, although they are clinically and
epidemiologically very different from American AIDS. They occur in
adolescents and adults of both sexes that are subject to protein malnutrition,
parasitic infections, and poor sanitary conditions (2, 3). This is only because
HIV, which is endemic in over 10% of Central Africans, is found in these
patients (2, 3, 6).
The drug-AIDS hypothesis predicts that the AIDS diseases of the
behavioral AIDS risk groups in the U.S. and Europe can be prevented by
controlling the consumption of recreational and anti-HIV drugs, but not by
"safe sex" and "clean needles" for unsterile street drugs. The proposal is
testable epidemiologically and experimentally by studying AIDS drugs in
animals.