New study shows AIDS drugs equally effective as poverty and malnutrition. Rodney Richards, Ph.D. Summary: Median time from seroconversion to AIDS and death in poor, starving rural Africans (without access to health care, purified water or electricity) living in the Masaka District of Uganda (where malaria, dysentery and measles are endemic) is no different than that observed in Europeans, North Americans, or Australians who have full access to proper nutrition, health-care, "life-prolonging" antiretrovirals, and prophylaxis against opportunistic infections (OI)! Conclusion: These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that antiretrovirals are killing people just as fast as poverty and malnutrition....