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AIDS Symposium Addresses Myths and Treatment
September 3rd, 2000
Physicians and other medical personnel attended a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, hoping to dispel myths surrounding HIV/AIDS and find ways to address the issue in a largely rural state that often cannot or will not find adequate care the disease. Speaker after speaker at the "Medical Management of AIDS" symposium noted that most of the public believes HIV/AIDS is confined to minority populations in poor, urban neighborhoods, as well as homosexuals. The human immunodeficiency virus is a retrovirus that infects human T cells, causing AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), which results in a variety of infections, some forms of cancer, and...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2000-09-03)
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