Whatever happened to AIDS?

Infectious agents and disease Pub Date : 1994-08-01
J E Osborn
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic has caught millions of people in its path worldwide during the first 13 years since it surfaced; half a million Americans have been diagnosed with AIDS, and hundreds of thousands more are in earlier stages of HIV disease. Yet the sense of urgency one would expect should attend such awful numbers is strangely absent, prompting the bitter query "Whatever happened to AIDS?" This paper discusses the present status of progress with respect to the epidemic and explores some of the reasons that might partially explain both the inherent difficulties of research and the inappropriate public sense of quiescence. It then puts forward some suggested areas of research endeavor and/or public policy that could re-energize the flagging public response to this massive health disaster.

艾滋病怎么了?
自艾滋病毒/艾滋病出现以来的头13年里,它在世界范围内已使数百万人陷入困境;50万美国人被诊断出患有艾滋病,还有数十万人处于艾滋病的早期阶段。然而,人们对如此可怕的数字所期待的紧迫感却奇怪地消失了,这引发了人们苦涩的质疑:“艾滋病到底发生了什么?”本文讨论了目前关于该流行病的进展状况,并探讨了一些可能部分解释研究固有困难和公众不适当的平静感的原因。然后,它提出了一些建议的研究努力和/或公共政策领域,可以重新激发萎靡不振的公众对这场大规模卫生灾难的反应。
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