The AIDS Scandal That Never Quits
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- Screening for HIV: Recommendation Statement. // American Family Physician;12/1/2005, Vol. 72 Issue 11, p2287
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- On the record. // Gay & Lesbian Times;9/9/2004, Issue 872, p28
Quotes comments made by Hayward, California resident Jim Malone who was erroneously diagnosed to be HIV-positive and was told about the mistake eight years later.
- Treatment Options for HIV-Associated Tuberculosis. Onyebujoh, Philip Chukwuka; Ribeiro, Isabela; Whalen, Christopher Curtis // Journal of Infectious Diseases;8/15/2007 Supplement, Vol. 196, pS35
The vicious interaction between the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and tuberculosis (TB) pandemics poses special challenges to national control programs and individual physicians. Although recommendations for the treatment of TB in HIV-infected patients do not significantly differ...
- HIV Infection: The Role of Primary Care. ROMANELLI, FRANK; MATHENY, SAMUEL C. // American Family Physician;11/1/2009, Vol. 80 Issue 9, p946
Human immunodeficiency virus infection was first documented in the United States in 1981. Since that time, significant strides have been made in the prevention and treatment of the condition. Screening is paramount in identifying early infection and is now a routine component of primary care....
- Back to the wall. Stewart, Dave // Social Alternatives;Oct96, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p14
The article presents the author's experience about being infected from AIDS. The author was diagnosed in 1989 to be HIV positive. Over the next two weeks, the author's wife was also diagnosed as being HIV positive and their six year old son was also HIV positive. Their son was passed away in...
- HIV/AIDS Diagnoses Among Blacks -- Florida, 1999-2004. // MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report;2/2/2007, Vol. 56 Issue 4, p69
The article reports on the findings of a report about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) diagnosis rate in Florida. It has found that the state had the second-highest reported AIDS diagnosis rate in the U.S. There has been a decline in the HIV/AIDS...
