In all the frenzy about the great drugs, it is worth noting, if even as a sideline, that the longest Dr. Ho has seen anyone on these drugs is not even three years.
It took about 6 years to admit that AZT wasn't doing what it was supposed to be doing ie. extending lives. And by that time Burroughs-Wellcome had made well over a billion dollars on the drug.
How long do we suppose until the same is "revealed" about the protease inhibitors?