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New AIDS Office Set Up for City

The Associated Press - Thursday, March 10, 1983

A special municipal health office was established yesterday to try to identify the cause of a rare new disease that has affected 520 New York City residents, most of them male homosexuals.

The disease is called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS.

While the cause is not known, doctors think an agent breaks down the body's immune system, leaving victims defenseless against other diseases.

"The city is sparing no effort to bring the needed attention to the concerns created by this disease," Mayor Koch said at a City Hall news conference. He said Dr. Roger W. Enlow was taking a leave from his work as a hospital researcher to head the new office, the Office of Gay and Lesbian Health Concerns.

HOMOSEXUALITY; MEDICINE AND HEALTH; RESEARCH; POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES; NEW YORK CITY
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