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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Current Issues and Scientific Studies

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Pascal James Imperato

    1. The Medical Society of the State of New York, Lake Success, USA

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Table of contents (47 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Pascal James Imperato
      Pages 1-5

  3. Research Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Demography of HIV infections among civilian applicants for military service in four counties in New York City

      • Donald S. Burke, John F. Brundage, William Berner, Lytt I. Gardner, Robert R. Redfield, Jeffrey Gunzenhauser et al.
      Pages 9-11

    3. Local policy responses to the AIDS epidemic: New York and San Francisco

      • Peter S. Arno, Robert G. Hughes
      Pages 11-19

    4. The effect of group education on improving attitudes about AIDS risk reduction

      • Ronald O. Valdiserri, David W. Lyter, Lawrence A. Kingsley, Laura C. Leviton, Janet W. Schofield, James Huggins et al.
      Pages 19-25

    5. Hospital workers and AIDS: Effect of in-service education on knowledge and perceived risks and stresses

      • Lydia O’Donnell, Carl R. O’Donnell
      Pages 25-27

    6. Cyclooxygenase inhibition and improved oxygenation in patients with pulmonary complications of AIDS

      • Steven H. Foster, Robert C. Garrett, Henry M. Thomas III
      Pages 27-29

    7. Medical students’ attitudes towards caring for patients with AIDS in a high incidence area

      • Pascal James Imperato, Joseph G. Feldman, Kamran Nayeri, Jack A. DeHovitz
      Pages 30-34

    8. Geographic and demographic features of the AIDS epidemic in New York City

      • John Milberg, Pauline Thomas, Rand Stoneburner
      Pages 34-39

    9. HIV infection among young adults in the New York City area

      • John F. Brundage, Donald S. Burke, Lytt I. Gardner, Robert Visintine, Michael Peterson, Robert R. Redfield
      Pages 39-42

    10. The epidemiology of AIDS in New Jersey

      • Ronald Altman
      Pages 43-46

    11. Effectiveness of distribution of information on AIDS

      • Michael W. Ross, James A. Carson
      Pages 46-48

    12. A seroepidemiologic profile of persons seeking anonymous HIV testing at alternate sites in upstate New York

      • John C. Grabau, Benedict I. Truman, Dale L. Morse
      Pages 49-52

    13. Teaching about AIDS in public schools: Characteristics of early adopter communities in Massachusetts

      • Jonathan Howland, Diane Baker, Julie Johnson, James Scaramucci
      Pages 52-55

  4. Overviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Intravenous drug use and the heterosexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus

      • Don C. Des Jarlais, Eric Wish, Samuel R. Friedman, Rand Stoneburner, Stanley R. Yancovitz, Donna Mildvan et al.
      Pages 59-62

    3. AIDS in Africa: Evidence for heterosexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus

      • Thomas C. Quinn
      Pages 62-65

    4. AIDS in adolescents: A rationale for concern

      • Karen Hein
      Pages 66-71

    5. Education and contact notification for AIDS prevention

      • Dean F. Echenberg
      Pages 72-73
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About this book

When Pascal James Imperato, MD, assumed the edi­ • Exclusion by the New York State Departm~nt of Health of qualified laboratories from HIV testmg torship of the New York State Journal of Medicine in 198~, the acquired immunodeficiency syndro. me (AIDS) epI­ • Protection of health care workers • Responsibilities of physicians and other health care demic in the United States was already SIX years old. Dur­ ing the time of his editorship, two thematic issues of the workers Journal have been devoted to AIDS. In addition, a large • Public education number of original communications have been regularly • AIDS confidentiality published on the subje~t. This volume ?rings together The Symposium on AIDS in Washington, DC, had important articles published on AIDS m the Journal been so successful that the MSSNY, under the auspices of during 1987 and 1988. . . the task force and the Division of Governmental Affairs, In the early years of the epidemic the Medical Society of held two informational symposia for state senators and the State of New York (MSSNY) was aware that it had a assemblymen and their staffs in Albany, New York. Thes. e responsibility to both the professi?~ an~ the public to add were presented in February 1988 and. March. 1989. ,!,hIS its efforts to those already mobIlized m the attempt to effort has convinced the MSSNY that It has given legisla­ understand and control this tragic disease. Early on, the tors a better understanding of the overall AIDS problem.

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  • The Medical Society of the State of New York, Lake Success, USA

    Pascal James Imperato

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