The National AIDS Memorial on Tuesday honored Drs. Anthony Fauci and David Ho during its virtual World AIDS Day event. Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, during a panel that ABC News Chief Health and Medical Correspondent Dr.
Jennifer Ashton moderated talked about treating people with HIV/AIDS during the first years of the epidemic. “You related to these people,” said Fauci. “They were young men who previously had been very healthy and they were in a mysterious disease.” “In 1981, 2 and 3 we knew it was an infection.
It had to be an infection,” he added. “We knew that it was new, but it was a very unique experience dealing with something that was