so in the beginning, people with aids got kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia.hose were the markers but there were a whole realm of fungus infections, parasitic infections, people lost weight. when we talk about aids, it's the final stage of the body's failure to respond to infection. since then, there has been, you know, it was in 1983-1984 they discovered it was viral. before that, they didn't know and since then, they have developed different treatments so in 1987 was the first treatment and that was the a.z.t., but what happened is people's bodies became resistant to the medicine. in 1985 then you had the idea of this cocktail, that there were three to four different medicines that people would take at the same time and they all addressed different parts of the virus reproduction cycle and that is still where people are. there are some new medications that people can take post-sexual contact, there are medications people can take before sexual contact and of course people are still encouraged to use condoms. so what we have learned is there are all sorts of