Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken every four hours around the clock to be effective, and can cause severe bone-marrow damage and anemia in some patients. "It's not an answer, and it's very toxic," says Polk, of Johns Hopkins. "Probably half of our patients on AZT will require weekly or bimonthly blood transfusions...
Government may have to step in where underwriters fear to tread. Of 325 insurance companies surveyed in 1985, 91% refused to issue policies to people who come up positive on the AIDS blood tests. (Many insurance companies are now requiring high-risk applicants to take these tests.) Without insurance, few Americans can handle the estimated $60,000 to $75,000 lifetime cost of treatment for AIDS, and most AIDS patients are not immediately eligible for Medicare or Medicaid. To fill the gap, Senator Ted Kennedy and others in Congress have proposed that all states establish a pool to provide insurance...
Last week CDC officials announced plans for a public forum to discuss further steps aimed at controlling the epidemic. At issue: whether AIDS blood tests should be made mandatory for couples seeking a marriage license, for women receiving prenatal care, and for people being admitted to hospitals and clinics where sexually transmitted diseases are treated. A premarital test, says Dr. Walter Dowdle, a deputy director of the CDC, "could provide an opportunity for counseling and protect the noninfected potential partner as well as future children...
...that it primarily affects heterosexuals, striking down men and women in equal numbers. "Many of us are very alarmed by what we are seeing in Africa," says Dr. Thomas Quinn, an infectious-disease expert at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. In the West, modern medical facilities, blood- screening equipment and speedy communications may keep AIDS under control. But Africa is on the front line of what some researchers are already calling an AIDS pandemic. The African experience suggests the dangers and tenacity of AIDS: how thoroughly it can infect a heterosexual population, how difficult...
...Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, 16% of the adult population, including up to 30% of the men, have been exposed to the AIDS virus. Now babies and young children are also being infected, some at birth via their mothers, who are AIDS carriers, and others through blood transfusions, which are frequently administered to children suffering from malarial anemia. In tiny Rwanda (pop. 6 million), researchers estimate that as many as 22% of AIDS victims are children...