Jason Johnson wrote:
>
> You made me laugh when you stated that Epidemiology is not politically driven.
> AIDS and HIV were treated in a different way than Syphillis and Gonorrhea
> were treated. Those employees that worked in clinics were required to
> notify anyone that had had sex with people that had Syphillis and
> Gonorrhea. For politically reasons, those same employees were not allowed
> to even ask people that had HIV the names of the people that they had had
> sex with. As a result AIDS spread quickly to thousands of people.

I think that had to do more with Reagan's refusal to fund research and
eduucation about a "*** disease" than anything else. Had the word
gotten out 10 years eariler that this disease was not a "***" disease
and in fact, could infect anyone, there would have been- and still
would be - far fewer cases.

> Decisions related to AIDS were based more on politics thand epidemiology.

Totally about politics, in the case of HIV.

-L.