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Politics And Aids: Conversations And Comments, Steven Stark

New England Journal of Public Policy

As AIDS has emerged as a medical and social concern, it has become a political issue as well. In a series of interviews, we asked some leading authorities for their opinions on how AIDS is emerging as a political issue, particularly during the campaign of 1988. In all cases, the comments that follow represent an edited version of their remarks. Those participating were Ronald Bayer, director of the Project on AIDS and the Ethics of Public Health at the Hastings Center; William Schneider, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Jonathan Handel, a gay activist and a member of the …

Hiv Antibody Screening: An Ethical Framework For Evaluating Proposed Programs, Ronald Bayer, Carol Levine, Susan M. Wolf

New England Journal of Public Policy

The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) poses a compelling ethical challenge to medicine, science, public health, the legal system, and our political democracy. This report focuses on one aspect of that challenge: the use of blood tests to identify individuals who have been infected with the retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In this article, we follow the terminology recently proposed by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses; that is, we use the term human immunodeficiency virus. This replaces the more cumbersome dual terminology of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus (HTLV-III/LAV).

The issue is urgent: the tests are …

Behavioral Change In Homosexual Men At Risk Of Aids: Intervention And Policy Implications, Suzanne B. Montgomery, Jill G. Joseph

New England Journal of Public Policy

With more than fifty thousand cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) diagnosed since its initial recognition in 1981 and no cure or vaccine in sight, experts agree that prevention is of the utmost importance. Yet very little research has investigated how existing social-psychological and health behavioral knowledge can be applied to the special circumstances of programmatic responses to AIDS. One of the central aims of our own research group has been to describe the psychosocial determinants of successful behavioral risk reduction among homosexual men, the largest affected group. This work is reviewed and its implications for the development of intervention …

Aids Initiatives In Massachusetts: Building A Continuum Of Care, Nancy Weiland Carpenter

New England Journal of Public Policy

The Health Resource Office was officially established within the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in August 1985 to coordinate policy, education, research, and service response to the AIDS epidemic, and to focus attention on the social and economic impact of the disease. The actual work of the office was begun earlier, in October 1983. This article reviews the activities of the Health Resource Office from October 1983 through June 1987 in allocating resources for AIDS and ARC programs and services. It then describes the conceptual model that evolved during this period for the continuum of services needed to reduce HIV …

The Role Of Education In Aids Prevention, George A. Lamb, Linette G. Liebling

New England Journal of Public Policy

The severity of the current AIDS epidemic, combined with the lack of successful biological interventions, necessitates an active educational program as the primary intervention strategy. Health education theories abound, but relatively little definitive application of these theories has been made to the issues involved with HIV transmission: sexual behavior and the sharing of intravenous drug apparatus. Significant behavior changes have occurred in some people, but the consistency of the behavior change may be difficult to sustain. Thus, the authors suggest that health education should be delivered repeatedly in culturally acceptable language and format, by community leaders, and through many different …

Covering The Plague Years: Four Approaches To The Aids Beat, James Kinsella

New England Journal of Public Policy

AIDS reporting has changed dramatically since 1981. But it was not until mid-1985, when Rock Hudson was diagnosed with the disease, that media outlets began playing the epidemic as a story of major proportions.

Because almost no major media institution embraced the AIDS story as an important issue, coverage of the epidemic was often the result of a reporter's initiative. Consequently, the connection the individual journalist had with the epidemic became a much stronger influence on what appeared in the news and on what Americans knew about the crisis than in any other recent major health story. This article examines …

Hiv Antibody Testing: Performance And Counseling Issues, Michael Gross

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article assesses the performance of currently used tests for exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the infectious agent associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); suggests, in view of that information, guidelines for counseling people seeking HIV antibody testing; and evaluates the claim that because antibody test results will effect behavior change in those who are infected, all members of high-risk groups should be tested.

HIV testing is likely to yield a high proportion of false-positive results in low-risk populations and infants born to infected mothers. A negative result may not establish freedom from infection in high-risk groups or the …

Aids And A-Bomb Disease: Facing A Special Death, Chris Glaser

New England Journal of Public Policy

In 1979 it was called "gay cancer," and it took the life of an acquaintance. Then "gay-related immune deficiency," or GRID, claimed neighbors, friends of friends, fellow activists. I began grief and death counseling with a segment of the population ordinarily concerned with life's ambitions and enjoyments: men in their twenties and thirties. Hospital visits and memorial services became more frequent.

By 1983, when it had come to be called AIDS, my own friends began to be affected. One was a man I dated in seminary, and I was devastated to learn of his illness only upon receiving a notice …

Our Paper 12/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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The Aids Project Newsletter (November 1987), David Ketchum, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsletter (1987-1991)

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Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.8, No.9 (November 1987), Northern Lambda Nord

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

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Audit Report -- The Woman Cpa, Kist, Bernhardt And Taylor

Woman C.P.A.

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Our Paper 09/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 08/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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The Aids Project Newsletter (August 1987), David Ketchum, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsletter (1987-1991)

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Our Paper 07/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 06/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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The Aids Project Newsletter (June 1987), David Ketchum, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsletter (1987-1991)

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Our Paper 05/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 04/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 03/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.8, No.2 (February 1987), Northern Lambda Nord

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

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Our Paper 02/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 01/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Ivy Leaves, 1986-1987, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1987 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were David Peebles, Stephen Brogdon, Ria Mashburn, David Walker, Tom Garner, Chris Whitfield, Pam Caldwell, Harrison Tucker, Lynn Macomson, Tim Teitloff, Karen Tanner, Stacey Godbey, Doug Davison, and Susan Wooten. Cover art by Stacey Godbey.

Our Paper 12/1986, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 11/1986, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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The Aids Project News (October 1986), The Aids Project

AIDS Project News (1986)

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Our Paper 08/1986, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 07/1986, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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