Word: hiv
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Watkins called discrimination the "foremost obstacle to progress" in combatting AIDS. "People simply will not come forward to be tested or will not supply names of sexual contacts for notification," he said, "if they feel they will lose their jobs and homes based on an HIV-positive test." The chairman's recommendation: that the President issue an Executive Order extending federal antidiscrimination laws already on the books to include those infected with the AIDS virus. In Congress, conservative lawmakers, who vigorously oppose steps that would confer special rights on homosexuals, the group most directly affected by AIDS, promptly voiced their...
...latest catchphrase in the war against AIDS is something called prevalence testing. Policymakers, researchers and health officials all want to know just how far the AIDS virus, called HIV-1, has spread in the U.S., but they disagree vehemently on how to go about it. After months of resisting President Reagan's calls for mandatory testing, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop last week told reporters at an AIDS conference in London that he hopes this spring to screen every student at a still unchosen urban U.S. university with a population of 25,000. Said Koop: "That would give...
Meanwhile, physicians at the New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry last week reported the first case in the U.S. of infection by a second deadly AIDS virus, HIV-2. The strain was first discovered in West Africa in 1985; since then some 100 cases have turned up in Western Europe. The reason for concern: blood tests for HIV-1 do not always detect HIV-2, making it possible for the infection to slip through AIDS-screening procedures in blood banks...
...infected patient is a native of the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa. Her diagnosis was quickly confirmed at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta with specialized blood tests that are not yet commercially available. CDC officials insist that her HIV-2 infection is an isolated case. Epidemiologists have screened nearly 23,000 U.S. blood samples for HIV-2 in the past 13 months without finding a single case. Says the CDC's Gerald Schochetman: "At present there is no great concern...
...York report comes at a time when researchers are trying to broaden the definition of the deadly syndrome to include all of the damage that can be caused by HIV infection, not just terminal AIDS. A textbook case of AIDS, involving Kaposi's sarcoma or Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, represents only the tip of the iceberg. Epidemiologists estimate that for every person with AIDS, there may be as many as ten more suffering from other illnesses caused by the virus. "The real disease starts when you become infected with HIV," says William Haseltine, chief of biochemical pharmacology at the Dana-Farber...