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...Richard G. Marlink, who recently replaced Alan Fein as the Institute's executive director, says that its objectives lie in five different areas: biological research, clinical care and research, biostatistics and epidemiology, health policy and education and international cooperation...
...Marlink, a clinical researcher and lecturer on cancer biology at the School of Public Health, says this research demonstrates the Institute's recognition "that the approach to problems in the AIDS epidemic is not one dimensional and requires knowledge of many fields...
...Conference controversy has brought many of these issues to light, and Marlink says that efforts to have the immigration ban on those who are HIV positive--which many have termed discriminatory--lifted will continue...
However, AZT has disadvantages of its own, says Dr. Richard G. Marlink, a research fellow in Groopman's laboratory. To be effective AZT must be taken orally every four hours continuously. "Even if it's having any effect, it may be something a patient will have to use the rest of his life," Marlink says. Still, alpha interferon and AZT, are the two most promising drugs around at present, better than those researchers--including Groopman--have tested before such as the much-touted suramin, Marlink says...