The new drug cocktails slow the disease, but don't cure it. PIs are too expensive for most people to get, and they're unavailable throughout most of the world. No one knows what effects PIs would have on kids. However, we know that after AZT was approved by the FDA, it took three additional years to approve it for children.
PIs are hard to take correctly.
If someone can't follow the complicated regimen, the drugs can contribute to a new, drug-resistant viral strain and make them sicker. One in four new HIV infections occurs in someone under 21. Among African Americans and Latinos, rates of infection are increasing. In Chicago, rates in Latino communities have surpassed those for whites. In the US, AIDS kills twice as many black men age 25-44 as homicide.