Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : AIDS Breakthrough Predicted for ‘90s

AIDS may not be curable by the end of the 1990s but it is likely to be tamed as a manageable, if chronic, condition that need not shorten life, a leading AIDS researcher told the New York-Italy Medical Symposium in New York City. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., one of the National Institutes of Health, said: “I have a good deal of confidence . . . that we can look forward to the 1990s as the kind of a decade where that goal can be realized,” Control of AIDS is not the same as curing it, he said, and people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus may have to be treated for life. He attributed his optimism to a growing understanding of the AIDS virus, the success of treatments so far and changes in the way the government is making new drugs available to AIDS patients.