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HIV Programs Thwarted by Policies and Cultural Barriers

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 24th, 1995

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), researchers warn that overblown expectations, restrictions to sound health policy-making, and cultural barriers thwart the implementation of effective HIV risk-reduction programs - and urge that these factors be removed to protect against future HIV infection.

The conclusions of the UCSF team are reported in a study appearing in a special disease prevention issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 12, 1995.

Each year, there are 40,000 or more new HIV infections in the U.S. AIDS has become the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 25 and 44. To some, this is...

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