AIDS: The challenge to science and medicine

Hastings Cent Rep. 1985 Aug;15(4):suppl 2-7.

Abstract

KIE: An overview is provided of what is currently known about the epidemiology of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and its potential for spread. It is concluded that AIDS poses a worldwide threat to public health of proportions unprecedented in modern times. The federal government is faulted for its limited support of clinical research on antiviral substances to suppress the multiplication of the AIDS-associated virus.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / blood
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / diagnosis
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / epidemiology
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / etiology
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / immunology
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / mortality
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / therapy
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome* / transmission
  • Africa
  • Biomedical Research
  • Deltaretrovirus
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Europe
  • Federal Government
  • Female
  • Haiti
  • Homosexuality
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Public Policy
  • Resource Allocation
  • Retroviridae Infections / therapy
  • Risk
  • Sex Factors
  • Substance-Related Disorders / complications
  • T-Lymphocytes
  • Time Factors
  • United States