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June 2006, Vol 96, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 959-961
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.089086

EDITORIAL

A Quarter Century of AIDS

Ron Stall, PhD, MPH and Thomas C. Mills, MD, MPH

Ron Stall is with the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Thomas C. Mills is with the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ron Stall, PhD, MPH, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 111 Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (e-mail: rstall@pitt.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the first scientific description of the AIDS epidemic.1 Since the publication of the initial report describing 5 cases of an unknown disease, the epidemic has grown at an exponential rate. An estimated 40300000 people are living with HIV infection around the globe, of whom 4900000 were infected during the year 2005 alone.2 The explosive trends in the global epidemic have also occurred in the United States; an estimated 925000 to 1025000 HIV-seropositive persons resided within the United States in 2003.3 Unless we find ways to field effective AIDS prevention and treatment programs on . . . [Full Text]


   AIDS EMERGES FIRST WITHIN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES
 

   AIDS IS A DISEASE OF DENIAL
 

   AIDS PREVENTION WORKS, BUT MORE PROGRESS IS NEEDED
 

   BIOMEDICAL RESPONSES MAY NOT BE ENOUGH TO END THE EPIDEMIC
 

   CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF INITIAL SUCCESSES FOR FUTURE ACTION
 

   HOW WILL HISTORY JUDGE OUR ACTIONS?
 



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