AZT was the first available measure against HIV, followed by combination drug therapies that significantly improved treatment outcomes.

“then came a ZT and that was not until the late 80s that that insight I can't remember the exact time wall maybe a bit earlier right potentially mid-80s but okay but so now we have the first measure against the button well social distancing that's right and then AZT was a repurposed drug and I remember where you could see the virus loads coming down and then they came back up of course because the virus escaped then raishin Ozzy at Emory discovered a couple of drugs that if you put these together or in combination with other drugs you now had a treatment and this was the game-changer”