cocktails may actually do more harm than good?Some AIDS treatment experts are now acknowledging that a part of the focus on early treatment may have been driven more by hype than solid science...? ? Matt Smith , SF Weekly Jan 3, 2001 ?47% (545 of 1160) of patients presented with clinical and 27% (194 of 712) with laboratory adverse events probably or definitely attributed to antiretroviral treatment. Among these, 9% (47 of 545) and 16% (30 of 194), respectively, were graded as serious or severe...? Lancet. 2001 Oct 20;358:1322-7 ? Fellay J , et al, Aids Researchers ??We?ve got to learn from what has happened here in the last 18 years and try not to repeat it, as we move into?Africa and Asia and India. I can?t overstate...how severe the problems are with the current therapies...People are dying from the effects of the therapies themselves in some cases...People are suffering from severe life-threatening complications of drugs. And a lot of them get to the point where they simply can?t use them anymore. So as we talk about bringing therapy to Africa, even if we can solve the problem and cost and infrastructure and delivery...are we doing the right thing with these drugs? Or are we unleashing another kind of epidemic over there of drug side effects as well?? ?[In this study on 55 healthy, uninfected, volunteers taking various combinations of the Protease Inhibitors Amprena