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AIDS:Questions and Lessons for Public Health

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 8, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 5-19
Rolf Rosenbrock

It is nearly ten years since the science of health policy began to address HIV infection and its consequences. Debates about the "normalization" of AIDS and greater efforts in Germany to establish public-health curricula at the university level present an occasion to reflect on what recent experiences with HIV and AIDS can teach those involved in the formulation of public-health theory and practice. What can be learned from the handling of HIV and AIDS in the theory and practice of public health? As a provisional and incomplete answer to this question, ten public-health problems posed by AIDS will be sketched. These follow in the form of theses with a view toward their possible generalization, and incorporate results of my own analyses as well as suggestions for work in a future subject, "public health."
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