I know very few AIDS-positive folks who don't also have Hep-C. Were they promiscuous sorts, I might be suspicious. They aren't ... not since the late-60's, anyway.
And those who've resisted longest the temptation to become lab rats at Charity are still alive, fwiw. All of those who clutched at AZT are long gone.
(What that portends for pregnant mothers in South Africa who are urged (or is it required?) to take AZT as a preventative measure "for their children" means, I hate to wonder.)
I suppose my observating over the years how many of my friends were used as willing human experimentation subjects -- much less the money your average pharma will blow at a medical convention -- has sort of soured me even further on those corporations whose primary profit is made in the realm of sexually transmitted disease and all things pertaining thereto ... including the roping in of EVERY infant for a preventative vaccine.
AZT isn't perfect but it's not what kills people with HIV.