HIV/AIDS a forgotten problem

Abstract

In the early 1980s, a new disease identified as related to sexual activity appears in the USA. It spread rapidly to the dimension of a deadly pandemic. Once detected, it was soon associated with sexuality, first with male homosexuality, but soon it also reached heterosexuals, crossing the frontiers of the initial risk groups (commercial sex practitioners, male homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and injecting drug users), turning into a cross-cutting and global threat. But the discovery and clinical use of antiretroviral drugs have blurred the threatening and deadly image of the disease. If people would restraint and protected themselves when the disease was acute, fast, and visibly deadly, they soon let themselves be deceived by easy optimism. The false imminence of a vaccine would only further increase this unjustified optimism (1) [...]