Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior

Social Changes Needed To Control AIDS Pandemic

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 6th, 1995

While education can help change behaviors to prevent the spread of HIV, fundamental social change is needed for global AIDS control efforts to succeed, says a scientist from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

"To manage the AIDS epidemic, countries need to not only promote change of people's behaviors, but also must address the related problems of increasing landlessness, mounting unemployment, accelerated urbanization, prostitution, rapid decline in health services and drug abuse," says Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., senior investigator in the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation.

Quinn, also on the faculty of Johns...

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