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...other speaker at the symposium was Dr.Howard Hiatt, the former dean of Harvard's Schoolof Public Health, who is currently professor ofmedicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...Hiatt discussed the impacts of the disease."The absence of a vaccine and therapeutie agentsleave grim prospects for biology and medicine." hesaid. "With no mechanisms to change the prospectsin the near, or perhaps even distant future, ouronly hopes are to encourage serious, enlightenedresearch, and to focus on prevention...
With the use of education, the gay communityhas been able to change its sexual behavior andslow the transmission of the disease, Hiatt said.By contrast, there has been no success amongintravenous drug users, partly because the waitingtime for addicts who want to join a rehabilitationprogram is almost a year. "For up to a year, thedrug users are either disseminating the virus orat risk for getting it," Hiatt said...
...virus is also presenting serious ethicalissues, as some doctors question theirresponsibility in the care of AIDS patients andothers demand to know whether their patients havebeen infected with the virus, Hiatt said."Although only 10 health workers have gotten AIDSfrom their patients, the number will grow," hesaid...
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...