Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Confronting AIDS""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""HIV INFECTION AND ITS EPIDEMIOLOGY""; ""The Spectrum of HIV Infection""; ""Modes and Efficiencies of HIV Transmission""; ""Prevalence and Incidence of Infection in the United States""; ""UNDERSTANDING THE EPIDEMIC'S COURSE""; ""ALTERING THE EPIDEMIC'S COURSE""; ""Antidiscrimination Protections""; ""Education""; ""Screening and Testing for HIV Antibody""; ""Other Public Health Measures""; ""AIDS and IV Drug Abuse""; ""Resources for Public Health Measures""
  • ""CARE OF PERSONS INFECTED WITH HIV""""Care Needs of Special Patients""; ""Health Care Providers""; ""Costs of Health Care for Persons with AIDS""; ""Financing Health Care for Persons with AIDS and Other HIV-Infected Individuals""; ""Possible Financing Mechanisms""; ""THE BIOLOGY OF HIV AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH NEEDS""; ""HIV Biology""; ""Drug Development and Testing""; ""Vaccine Development and Testing""; ""Roundtable on Drugs and Vaccines""; ""Animal Models of AIDS""; ""Resources for the Campaign""; ""INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF AIDS AND HIV INFECTION""
  • ""A NATIONAL COMMISSION ON HIV INFECTION AND AIDS""""1 Introduction ""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 HIV Infection and Its Epidemiology ""; ""HIV: THE ETIOLOGIC AGENT OF AIDS""; ""PROPORTION OF INFECTED INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL DEVELOP AIDS""; ""THE SPECTRUM OF HIV INFECTION""; ""MODES AND EFFICIENCIES OF HIV TRANSMISSION""; ""Heterosexual Transmission""; ""Efficiencies of Transmission""; ""Relative Efficiencies of HIV Transmission""; ""PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF HIV INFECTION IN THE UNITED STATES""; ""HIV Prevalence in Groups at Recognized Risk""
  • ""HIV Prevalence Among Selected Segments of the General Population""""Incidence of New Infections""; ""National Estimates of HIV Infection""; ""The Program of HIV Surveys and Studies""; ""AIDS CASES IN THE UNITED STATES""; ""THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT OF AIDS""; ""FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Understanding the Course of the Epidemic ""; ""THE USES OF MODELS""; ""DATA NEEDS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Altering the Course of the Epidemic ""; ""FEATURES OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS""; ""ANTIDISCRIMINATION PROTECTIONS""; ""EDUCATION""; ""Content of the Message""; ""School-Based Education""
  • ""Effect of Educational Programs""""Gay and Bisexual Men""; ""AIDS and Condoms""; ""HIV ANTIBODY SCREENING AND TESTING""; ""Technical Considerations""; ""Informed Consent and Confidentiality""; ""Voluntary Testing""; ""Mandatory Screening""; ""Blood, Tissue, and Organs""; ""Hospital-Based Screening""; ""Premarital Screening""; ""Female Prostitutes""; ""Home-Based Testing""; ""OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES""; ""Duty to Warn""; ""Contact Notification""; ""Reporting of HIV-Seropositive Cases""; ""Personal Control Measures""; ""AIDS AND IV DRUG ABUSE""; ""Intervention Innovations""