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AIDS is a particularly difficult disease todevelop a vaccine for because most vaccines workby mimicking a virus--thus stimulating the body toproduce antibodies--and the body does not produceantibodies to AIDS, Baltimore said...
...change its sexual behavior andslow the transmission of the disease, Hiatt said.By contrast, there has been no success amongintravenous drug users, partly because the waitingtime for addicts who want to join a rehabilitationprogram is almost a year. "For up to a year, thedrug users are either disseminating the virus orat risk for getting it," Hiatt said...
Other impacts of the AIDS virus include theincredible costs of the treatment. It is estimatedthat by 1991, the costs to insurance companieswill be in excess of $10 billion...
...virus is also presenting serious ethicalissues, as some doctors question theirresponsibility in the care of AIDS patients andothers demand to know whether their patients havebeen infected with the virus, Hiatt said."Although only 10 health workers have gotten AIDSfrom their patients, the number will grow," hesaid...
...stirring controversy, insurance executives have been perfectly forthright concerning their policies toward potential AIDS victims. Responding to a survey conducted by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, 51 of 61 insurance companies admitted that they screen or plan to screen health- insurance applicants for signs of the AIDS virus. Half the firms give blood tests for the presence of AIDS antibodies, a sign that the applicant could be stricken with the disease...