Bring HIV Campaign Out of the Dark Alley

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Bring HIV Campaign Out of the Dark Alley

Wall Street Journal (12/15/98) P. A23
Zingale, Daniel

In a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Zingale, the executive director of AIDS Action, applauds a recent editorial in the newspaper opposing public opinion campaigns that portray everyone as "at risk" for HIV. Zingale notes that homosexual men and injection drug users and their sex partners are at the highest risk in the United States. He asserts, though, that limiting a campaign solely to those two groups would result in a failure to reach other high risk groups, including young people and low-income minority women. Half of the 40,000 new HIV infections in the United States each year occur among young people. Zingale states that many younger people are still not completely educated about the disease, with some believing that new anti-HIV medications are capable of essentially curing infection. He adds that the drugs are expensive and do not work for everyone.

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