An enormous international effort is being made to devise methods of treating and preventing the diseases. There are two lines of research, one into developing drugs which can be used to cure the disease, and one into developing a vaccine, Both approaches are at an early stage and require heavy financial investment. In the short-term the aim is to develop drugs to inactivate the virus, by blocking the pathogen's metabolism.
The best known drug used by 1987 was azidothymidine or zidovudine (formerly known as AZT) which slows progression of the disease and can attack the virus even in the brain (a major reservoir of infection) other drugs are being examined such as Ribavarrin a drug used to treat other viral infection which has been found to suppose the AIDS virus under laboratory conditions. Submarine, an anti parasitic drug has also shown encouraging results inhibiting viral reproduction in host.
The best known drug used by 1987 was azidothymidine or zidovudine (formerly known as AZT) which slows progression of the disease and can attack the virus even in the brain (a major reservoir of infection) other drugs are being examined such as Ribavarrin a drug used to treat other viral infection which has been found to suppose the AIDS virus under laboratory conditions. Submarine, an anti parasitic drug has also shown encouraging results inhibiting viral reproduction in host.
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