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Zidovudine (AZT)
Zidovudine (AZT) and other drugs used to treat HIV
Professor Brian Gazzard from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital saw his first HIV patient in 1979. Soon after, hospitals around the world had an epidemic on their hands. By the early 1990s, AZT was being tested on patients.
This is a programme from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2001.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
