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Public health policy and the AIDS epidemic : an end to HIV exceptionalism?
In the early and mid-1980s, when democratic nations were forced to confront the public health challenge posed by the epidemic of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), it was necessary to face a set of fundamental questions: Did the history of responses to lethal infectious diseases provide lessons about how best to contain the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection? Should the policies developed to control sexually transmitted diseases or other communicable conditions be applied to AIDS? If AIDS were not to be so treated, what would justify such differential policies?
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- New England Journal of Medicine
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- https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199105233242111
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- Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
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- February 22, 2013