Patients with advanced AIDS initially paid as much as $10,000 a year for the drug.

The price has been reduced twice by 20 percent, but the typical patient with advanced AIDS may still pay $6,400 a year.

The many other medications that patients with advanced AIDS may need for related conditions could raise the bill to $70,000.

But the total represents only 28 percent of the people with advanced AIDS who need such therapy in poor and middle-income countries.

Thus, he said he was reluctant to switch drugs among people with advanced AIDS.

His doctor said he shows signs of dementia related to advanced AIDS.

Ariel had developed advanced AIDS at a time when the medical community knew very little about the disease and there were no available treatment options.

In that way, she looked like a patient with advanced AIDS, a disease with which the physician was all too familiar.

People with advanced AIDS often have an erratic course.

The study was carried out in 1,090 patients with advanced AIDS.