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On Monday we reported on a trial showing that early retroviral treatment can protect partners of HIV-infected individuals. The findings are so good that the data were released early by the interim review board.

This must put a smile on the face of Anthony Fauci, who has made great contributions to understanding how HIV destroys the body’s immune defences, thus leading to AIDS. Fauci has been talking to John Donnelly over at Science Speaks, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the discovery of what turned out to be HIV. It’s well worth a read, even if you’re not professionally interested in HIV/AIDS, for the very human story behind the science.

It was the first time in my medical career I actually got goose pimples. […] I went from happy years of making people better to a period of close to a decade of the dark years in which most of my patients died.

—from Anthony Fauci reflects on 30 years of AIDS.

Read some evaluations of Fauci’s papers (he’s still publishing, even at 70!) at F1000.