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What gave the panel findings extra punch was that they followed by only a week an equally grim report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop that urged an all-out effort to educate the populace, beginning with young children, to the dangers of AIDS and ways to avoid them. Though they worked independently, Koop and the NAS committee each knew of the other's studies. Their reports contained little that had not been published before in the way of scientific information about AIDS or predictions about its spread. What distinguished them from previous pronouncements was the authority of their...
...given the hygienic and other differences between those countries and America. But in the U.S. too, the risk of AIDS increases with the number of sexual partners a man or woman has: the more partners, the greater the chance of repeated exposure to an infected person. Koop goes so far as to say that "unprotected" intercourse between even a steady couple poses a risk unless the pair knows with "absolute certainty" that they have been mutually faithful for at least five years...
...schools, how to avoid the risk of infection. Sex education, said the panel, has become literally a life-and-death matter, and educators should use "whatever vernacular is required" to get the message across. One message, more or less in the vernacular, has already been supplied by Koop: a "rubber (condom) should always be used during sexual intercourse (vagina or rectum)" if there is any chance that a homosexual or heterosexual partner might be infected...
...death toll of 15,000 in the U.S. seems small compared with some of the scourges of old. But no cure or vaccine is in sight, and the figure is expected to rise to nearly 180,000 in five years. By that time, predicts U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, 145,000 Americans with AIDS will need health and other services costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually...
...against that grim background last week that Koop, in a dramatic report to the public (see box), warned that AIDS will spread beyond its current high-risk groups into the general population. He called for greater use of the only weapons currently at hand for controlling the AIDS epidemic: education about the disease beginning as early as the third grade and prevention. Koop's report was educational in itself. It was comprehensive and accurate, and its warnings were expressed in sexually explicit language that readers could not fail to understand...