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San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, December 8, 1989
The commission noted the "alarming increase" of AIDS among drug users in poverty-ridden urban centers, adding that this situation has thrust tens of thousands into a "health care system singularly unresponsive to the needs of HIV-infected people." The report called for expanded recovery programs for drug abusers, particularly those who are HIV-infected and thus more likely to spread infection.
Regional treatment centers are needed to coordinate care for HIV patients. That would not only be better medicine, but would cut costs.
EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY, the report warned that "there is a dangerous, perhaps even growing complacency, in our country toward an epidemic that many people want to believe is over." The commission has taken a hardheaded, yet humane, look at the challenge of AIDS, and is moving in a constructive direction.
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