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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 1998;279:491-493.

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ONCE AGAIN AIDS is making an impact that reaches beyond its emergence as a new type of infectious disease.

When the disease appeared initially among homosexual men in the United States in the early 1980s, it effectively forced reconsideration of a group that society in general had mostly ignored, if not actively ostracized. Now AIDS is making it necessary to reconsider the functioning of health care systems worldwide.

One factor in this change is the advent of effective antiviral drugs like protease inhibitors, which have changed a mortality model of the disease to a management model.

At the International Conference on Health Care Resource Allocation for HIV/AIDS and Other Life-Threatening Illnesses, held in Washington, DC, late last year, John C. Harvey, MD, said, "An acute and universally fatal disease has now become a manageable, chronic disease. This has caught the health care systems and the social policy planners . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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