Aids
Submitted by on January 1, 1999
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AIDS - What's new ?
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Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to
prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to
stop many from taking adequate precautions.
We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves
from it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced
quarantine or total celibacy. But too few people are heeding the AIDS
message. Perhaps many simply don't like or want to believe what they hear,
preferring to think that AIDS "can't happen to them." Experts repeatedly
remind us that infective agents do not discriminate, but can infect any and
everyone. Like other communicable diseases, AIDS can strike anyone. It is not
necessarily confined to a...