Word: marlink
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Executive Director of the Harvard AIDS Institute Richard G. Marlink expressed his disapproval at the vote. "I think it's a mistake," he said. Marlink explained that the Institute's public health policy indicates that contagious tuberculosis is the only disease which should be considered a threat from travelers...
...Although Marlink's opinion is not necessarily indicative of the Institute's, he explained the Institute's general policy...
...Marlink's work on HIV-II has ranged from the analysis of the causes of the disease to the effects of the disease on immune system responses. This broad base, Essex says, makes Marlink just the person to lead the Institute...
...home front, Marlink's assessment is that Boston residents have become more aware of the disease recently, both because more aware of the disease recently, both because of grass-roots efforts and because of Magic Johnson's announcement that he is HIV-positive. But campus organizations have not been as active as they could have been, he says...
...think that universities in general, and Harvard specifically, would tend to deal more openly with HIV as a health issue and an issue that has its own discrimination and human rights problems," Marlink says...