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In this up-to-the-minute book, Burkett:
* Analyzes how AIDS was dealt with -- and not dealt with -- in the November elections.
* Examines how the Clinton Administration and the National Institutes for Health have taken credit for medical advances that in fact have not been made.
* Challenges the "dangerous myth" that AIDS will soon become a manageable chronic illness. Burkett reveals that even by the most optimistic estimates, the new drugs will do no more than prolong life by a few years -- and that there are no other promising treatments on the horizons.
* Takes on Andrew Sullivan, the noted gay writer and former editor of The New Republic, who was just quoted in last week's New York Times Magazine cover story as saying that being diagnosed with AIDS "... no longer signifies death." According to Burkett, Sullivan and other gay leaders are eager to promote the myth that AIDS is a manageable disease, since AIDS deflects attention from other issues affecting lesbians and gays.
Elinor Burkett was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her AIDS reporting. She lives in New York.
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