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...threat of quarantine would be likely to have a profoundly adverse effect on attempts to control spread of the epidemic. AIDS will not be contained if the threat of reprisal drives gay men underground. The best hope is through openness and education. Repression will be as ineffective with this disease as it was with cholera in the last century and with several sexually transmitted diseases in this...
...exists no AIDS risk of which current medical knowledge is not aware. If current medical knowledge is completely applied--if all donated blood is tested for the virus (as it is in Massachusetts), and people refrain from exchanging body fluids, especially during sex, and from sharing hypodermic needles--the spread of HTLV-III from person to person will be reduced to zero...
...reached over for a dandelion, and just squished it and spread the juice all over my shoes, my new shoes, and said welcome to the dandelion club...
...Crimson of November 21, the speakers in the UHS Student Health Advisory Council's forum on issues relating to AIDS were characterized as having "strongly criticized the lack of social concern about AIDS." By focusing in its article on the rapid spread of AIDS, the Crimson is awakening "social concern about AIDS," and in a sense doing a service. But without any of the information that is known about the epidemiology of the disease, information which was dispensed in liberal proportion at the SHAC forum and unfortunately omitted entirely from the Crimson article, that "social concern" is more likely...
AIDS is a medical enigma up to a point, but enough is known about it that a positive educational campaign based on what is known already had an immense effect in reducing the rate of its spread. According to Dr. Forstein, sexually- transmitted diseases have decreased by 75 to 80 percent in the gay community in the last two years, much of this decrease resulting directly from AIDS education. But as long as people are putting themselves and others at unecessary risk without a clear awareness of that risk, there is a long road ahead. The Crimson does well...