UNITAID creates the Medicines Patent Pool
Zambia: seven stories of hope.
Cuba becomes the first country to eliminate transmission of HIV from mother to baby.
Timothy Ray Brown appears to rid himself of HIV after a stem cell transplant from a donor naturally resistant to HIV, raising hopes for a cure.
Clinical trial ACTG019 shows that treatment with AZT (zidovudine) can delay the onset of AIDS.
Dideoxyinosine (ddl) is pre-approved by the FDA for treatment of people with AIDS.
In response to advocacy from people with AIDS, the FDA puts in place regulations to make experimental drugs available to those who have no other options.
GlaxoSmithKline gives Combivir away in South Africa.
Botswana becomes the first African country to launch a national antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme.
Botswana rolls out a national programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
