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Yesterday, marked the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus. Twenty years ago I was diagnosed with HIV-AIDS and thanks to an active AIDS community that demanded change, I am alive today. The AIDS community pushed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed up the review process and user-fees were instated to help bolster the FDA budget to review and approve HIV and AIDS drugs at a much faster rate.

Hope for today’s serious disease treatments still lies with medical researchers who are making scientific breakthroughs and with government regulators who approve these breakthrough medicines for the market.

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