There is little question that the character of AIDS changed dramatically in the early 1990s with the proliferation of AZT. Kaposi’s sarcoma uncoupled from the disease and AIDS cases began to look increasingly like AZT poisoning. “Then at a certain point, when really that sort of AIDS virtually ceased to exist, there came a new type of AIDS,” says John Lauritsen.106 “So they expanded the definition, and also they began giving the anti-HIV drugs to people who were in fact not even sick, but merely positive on the HIV test. And in that case, of course, when they finally became sick enough from
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