Three decades into the AIDS epidemic there remains a troubling disconnect about the risk of infection, as the highest-risk groups don’t seem to be getting the message. One may be tempted to conclude there is some kind of death wish at…
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What if they gave an epidemic — and nobody cared?
September 7, 2011 – 8:02 pm
Three decades ago this year, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia — an opportunistic infection then virtually unheard of in healthy individuals — was diagnosed in five gay men in Los Angeles. These were the first official cases of AIDS, an historic epidemic…