BBC - Friday, 7 January, 2000
A study by the international Eurosida project of fifteen-thousand people infected with the HIV virus found an increasing number of patients taking a powerful mixture of drugs which stopped Aids developing and reduced the number of deaths from the illness.
However, there are fears that the drugs could produce more severe side-effects than previously thought.
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