According to researchers at UC at San Francisco, Needle exchange programs can "prevent significant numbers of [HIV] infections among clients of the programs, their drug and sex partners and their offspring. ...

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And The Band Played On Epidemiologists at Work In the movie "And the Band Played On" a new epidemic was identified in the United States. In 1981the Center for Disease Control (CDC) initially became aware that a new disease was spreading when medical facilities in Los Angeles, California bega...

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AIDS AIDS stand for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This is the condition caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus called HIV. People who have a positive blood test for the virus are said to be HIV positi...

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