Epidemiology

As AIDS Epidemic Evolves, Service Groups Struggle To Position

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 31st, 1999

Once, AIDS service organizations focused on helping patients get their affairs in order and keeping them comfortable as they died.

"We had a horrible certainty, and now we have a mixed-bag certainty," said Craig E. Thompson, AIDS Project Los Angeles.

With more patients living longer, just how "exceptional" a disease is AIDS' And what happens to the funds and supporters - the voluminous network of help that became a phenomenon in itself' They have to shift strategy, many said.

"Maybe in the long-term we can't maintain that sense of crisis. Maybe it's finding a way to manage AIDS as a decades-long health problem, said Tom...

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