In mid-1995 protease inhibitors were made available to selected AIDS
patients, before their approval by the FDA, through an expanded
access program.  The FDA approved the first protease inhibitor in
Dec 1995, and the next two in Mar 1996.  Both American and Canadian
AIDS mortality statistics show the result: a large decrease in AIDS
mortality from 1995 and 1997.  It is impossible to mistake this drop
for a continuation of previous trends when you see, in a single graph
or table, the mortality statistics from a few years before the drop
to a few years after.

Paul King is dogmatically attached to a belief that AIDS drugs don't
work.  The data that show him wrong are easily verifiable (I provide
links below).  The only tactics with which Paul can hope to suppress
this knowledge are lying and flooding the newsgroup.

Paul is sexually promiscuous, and has been so for a very long time,
probably including the early 80s when HIV was taking the world by
surprise.  He never uses a condom and refuses to take an HIV test,
and he has built an elaborate structure of rationalizations to justify
those decisions.  That structure is as stable as a house of cards,
which is why Paul King uses desperate methods to defend every part
of it against actual evidence.

Here, then, are data that Paul can't face:

<http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/aids-sida/haic-vsac1203/pdf/haic-vsac1203.pdf>

Table 21. Reported deaths among reported AIDS cases by year of death (all ages)
year      # reported
1991           1,106
1992           1,288
1993           1,409
1994           1,464
1995           1,500
1996           1,067
1997             462
1998             275
1999             260

Notice how the table shows increases decreases up to 1995, large
decreases in 1996 and 1997, then smaller decreases in the following
years.

<http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/graphics/images/L207/L207-9.htm>

Three graphs show rising AIDS mortality for whites, blacks and
Hispanics until 1995.  In 1995 AIDS mortality flattens for blacks
and Hispanics and falls slightly for whites.  It drops sharply for
all three groups in 1996 and 1997, and levels out, decreasing more
slowly in 1998 and later years.

<http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1402/2002SurveillanceReport.pdf>

The graph on page 1 shows US AIDS mortality rising each year up to
1994, still rising but barely from 1994 to 1995, dropping sharply in
1996 and 1997, and falling slowly in the years that follow.

<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049322.htm>

Figure 1 shows quarterly mortality for Americans 13 and over with AIDS.
The curve flattens in 1995, amd falls sharply in 1996.

Figure 2 shows quarterly mortality for white American MSM 13 and over.
The rising curve becomes less steep between 1992 and 1995, falls
slightly in 1995, then falls more steeply in 1996.  (Incidentally, this
curve becomes almost level in 1987.  I wonder what happened in 1987?)