Word: treatment
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Most health officials believe the Federal Government will have to take a larger role not only in education but in other areas if an AIDS disaster is to be avoided. More drug-treatment centers, and perhaps even programs to give addicts free sterile needles, may be needed to control the rampant spread of AIDS among intravenous drug users. A free needle program has been highly successful in Amsterdam, known as Europe's drug capital...
...already badly strained by a flood of AIDS patients. One study noted that the cost of treating ten AIDS patients in the U.S. -- about $450,000 -- is more than the entire budget of one large Zairian hospital. Clinics and hospitals are now routinely discharging AIDS patients after emergency treatment to make room for those who can be effectively treated. Doctors often have to make painful decisions. A case of bacterial pneumonia can be cured with $5 or $6 worth of drugs, for example, while cryptococcal meningitis, a frequent manifestation of AIDS infection in east Africa, costs $l,000 to treat...
...companies surveyed in 1985, 91% refused to issue policies to people who come up positive on the AIDS blood tests. (Many insurance companies are now requiring high-risk applicants to take these tests.) Without insurance, few Americans can handle the estimated $60,000 to $75,000 lifetime cost of treatment for AIDS, and most AIDS patients are not immediately eligible for Medicare or Medicaid. To fill the gap, Senator Ted Kennedy and others in Congress have proposed that all states establish a pool to provide insurance to people who would otherwise not be covered. Nine states already have such programs...
...every two sexually active adults will be infected." The Geneva-based World Health Organization estimates that 2 million to 5 million Africans are now carriers of the AIDS virus. Leading researchers believe at least 50,000 people have already died of AIDS in Africa, and unless a treatment and vaccine are found, a million and a half more may succumb over the next decade...
...Christian militia, in a prison camp to the north of the border between Lebanon and Israel. Among the inmates are hundreds of Amal and Hizballah guerrillas who were captured in clashes with either the militia or the Israeli army. Israeli officials disclose privately that they have protested the poor treatment of prisoners at the camp to General Antoine Lahd, the militia's commander. Lahd replied that he was not running a hotel. In June 1985, the hijackers of a TWA jet demanded and eventually secured the release of several hundred Lebanese Shi'ites from Israel's Atlit prison in exchange...