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Aran Ron, MD; David E. Rogers, MD

JAMA. 1988;260(10):1453.

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NEW YORK City is facing a major health care crisis—one that may be repeated in other American cities in the near future. This is the growing number of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), whose care threatens to overwhelm the city's health care resources. In our city, minorities and the poor constitute an increasing proportion of new AIDS cases. In addition, the demographic makeup of this patient population creates an increasing potential for conflicts to erupt across racial and socioeconomic class lines.

The majority of new AIDS diagnoses are in intravenous drug users, their sexual partners, and infants born to these couples. More than 80% of these patients are black or Hispanic¹ and almost all are poor. These groups, along with homosexual AIDS patients and substance abusers who don't have AIDS, are already placing great demands on limited hospital resources. It is becoming more difficult to arrange admission for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Public Health (Dr Ron) and Medicine (Dr Rogers), The New York Hospital—Cornell Medical Center.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to the Department of Public Health, The New York Hospital—Cornell Medical Center, 1300 York Ave, Room A-631, New York, NY 10021 (Dr Ron).

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