Tag: Gilead Sciences

By Yen Duong Although antiretroviral drugs mean that HIV is no longer the ‘death sentence’ it was in the 1980s, the epidemic is not over yet, as 30-year old Charlottean Colin Jack knows well. “One of my best friends died at 28, two months after his birthday,” Jack said. “I wouldn’t have thought that would

By Taylor Knopf An estimated 110,000 North Carolinians are living with hepatitis C, and about 75 percent don’t even know it. Terl Gleason, a 55-year-old tax preparer and Greensboro native, was exposed to the contagious blood-borne virus in the late 1980s, but didn’t know he had it until 2000. He never experienced any common symptoms