Dave Brown

In 1985, I was working in an STD clinic in Nashville, Tennessee, and was one of two HIV counselors doing pre-test and post-test counseling for people most likely getting the very first HIV test of their lives. There were NO anti-HIV medications available at that time, and the only ounce of hope you could impart to these newly infected people was that there appeared to be more HIV-positive (POZ) people not yet ill  than there were POZ persons who were having symptoms.  In 1985, untreated POZ people most likely had VERY high HIV viral loads (high amounts of active HIV virus in the […]