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HIV and AIDS: Global Collaboration to Combat a Mysterious Pandemic
HIV and AIDS: Global Collaboration to Combat a Mysterious Pandemic
Pages 36-39
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The AIDS memorial quilt, part of the "Names Project" False-color transmission electron micrograph of for remembering and honoring AIDS victims HIV-1, the AIDS virus, budding from the surface of (Science Photo Library®) an infected T lymphocyte (Science Photo Library®)
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and Prevention adopted the use of the term AIDS, populations were quickly identified, including a comparatively neutral name, in September 1982, recipients of blood products, women who have but the stigma associated with the disease persisted sex with HIV-positive men, and children of HIV Historical photograph of AIDS patient at Goldwater Memorial Hospital, New York (Science Photo Library®) well beyond this date.
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Academy of Sciences issued Confronting AIDS: or zidovudine, Directions for Public Health, Health Care, and formerly known as AZT (Science Research, making specific recommendations for a Photo Library®) substantially increased effort to combat the spread of AIDS, through a $2 billion multifaceted program, including public health and media campaigns.
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That AIDS is no longer a certain death sentence remains one of the greatest public health success stories of recent decades. However, racial disparities that arose during the AIDS epidemic continue to exist today.
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