Word: hiatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seventy-thousand people have had AIDS," says Dr. Howard Hiatt, director of the Center for Policy and Education, one of five branches of the AIDS Institute. "Even now there aren't enough workers or enough hospital beds." Hiatt says that one of the concerns of the policy center will be figuring out how to construct feasible home care programs for AIDS patients...
...Institute] will try to bring together the people in different parts of the University whose skills are in the areas that we must call upon to address these difficulties," Hiatt says...
...There is a whole range of problems that have been with us in spite of AIDS," Hiatt says. "Insurance, confidentiality, sex education, drug abuse--all of those problems have been with us. AIDS has put them into sharper focus...
...from the Fogarty Institute of the National Institute of Health to support a fellowship fund which will bring AIDS researchers to Harvard from Africa and East Asia. This grant supports efforts by the new AIDS organization to relieve the dearth of health care workers qualified to treat AIDS patients, Hiatt says...
Confidentiality is also a problem, and medicalprofessionals are facing many questions to which"there are no rules. All of this is evolving,"Hiatt said. "Doctors are confronted with theconflict between the responsibility of being adoctor for one patient and for society as a whole...