"AIDS Dominates the 1980s"

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"AIDS Dominates the 1980s"

United Press International (12/11/89)
Stein, Rob

Abstract: Boston--The 1980s saw the dawning of the "Age of AIDS," in which an obscure disease that appeared to affect only homosexual men grew to epidemic proportions with issues touching all aspects of society around the world. Since 1981, 66,000 Americans have died of AIDS and an estimated 1.5 million have become HIV-infected. AIDS has had an impact on everything from biomedical research to lifestyle, because "it involves sexual behavior and social behavior and therefore...strikes at where we live...the core of our social fabric and what we think (of) our social values," said Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. AIDS has made an indelible mark on the nation's psyche and overshadowed most other public health issues. "There's no question that the health problem of the '80s is AIDS," Relman said.

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