“AIDS is a chronic long-term breakdown of the immune system that can be caused by multiple factors,” says Mark Gabrish Conlan, gay historian, publisher, “generally more than one of them operating within any particular person with AIDS or with what has been described as AIDS. And at the top of that, in the west would be recreational drug use, also pharmaceutical drug use and repeated infections, including with diseases that are genuinely sexually transmitted, repeated antibiotic treatments for these: a lifestyle that involves a lot of partying, lack of nutrition, and in the less-developed
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