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Dr David Barry, the scientist who helped develop the first Aids treatment, has died of a heart attack in the USA. Dr Barry was best known as the co-developer of AZT. Even though the drug was first developed in the 1960s as an anti-cancer medication, it found a new use in the mid 1980s, when it was discovered to be effective at blocking the reverse transcriptase enzyme which HIV needs to invade the body's immune cells. Barry worked for 18 years at Burroughs Wellcome and went on to set up Triangle Pharmaceuticals in North Carolina, now a division of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.
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Novelist, playwright and theatre director Neil Bartlett
Lisa Power, head of policy at the Terrence Higgins Trust
"A lot of new diagnoses are of old infections. People often get tested only when they start to become ill, which may be as many as ten years later."
John Godwin, head of policy at the National Aids Trust
"8,000 people in the European Union have now run out of drug options."
Hong Tan, of Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority
