Researchers Testing Thalidomide for Use in AIDS
By Lawrence K. Altman
July 1, 1993
...federally financed scientists elsewhere are testing thalidomide for the kind of mouth ulcers that often develop in AIDS, Dr. Fauci said.
The report about thalidomide comes in the wake of bleak news about A.Z.T.'s effectiveness in treating H.I.V.
Might have been a different drug, I recall he pushed some fake cure for aids in the 80s.
I take it back! He DID try to repurpose thalidomide for aids -
https://archive.ph/LHdj7
Okay, thanks for doing the legwork. I thought I'd remembered that nasty little goblin peddling poison way back when.
The drug he pushed for AIDS was AZT. The movie Dallas Buyers Club is partially about how useless it was even back in the 80s.