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CDC Researcher Makes Charge of "Public Health Malpractice"
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 29th, 1996
Treatment of STDs could reduce worldwide HIV incidence by 40 percent, claimed Judith N. Wasserheit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
She called for the treatment of STDs to become a worldwide priority in an address to the XI International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
"It is tantamount to public health malpractice to fail to treat sexually transmitted diseases in both the developed and developing world," Wasserheit said. "We must...
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