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Who Should Care?

Charles E. Lewis, MD, ScD

JAMA. 1997;278(14):1133-1134.

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FIFTEEN YEARS after the first description of persons diagnosed as having the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),¹ and after almost 600 000 cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (as of the end of 1996),² an issue under intense debate is that of who should provide medical care for persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or AIDS.

See also p 1131.

It was 6 years after the initial report of AIDS cases before the first federal effort to educate health professionals with regard to this problem was formally initiated by establishing AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs).³ At that time, about 66 000 AIDS cases had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (using different criteria for the diagnosis than at present).⁴

The 15 AETCs currently in operation are located throughout the United States. The budget for AETC operation . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Reprints: Charles E. Lewis, MD, ScD, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772 (e-mail: lewis@admin.ph.ucla.edu).

Controversies section editor: Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, Senior Editor.

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