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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Atlanta set a national goal in 2001 of a 50% reduction in new HIV infections by 2005.
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Before 1996, AIDS was an equal-opportunity disease in the United States, affecting wealthy and poor alike. In fact, researchers in one of the worlds AIDS epicenters could find no disparity between wealthy populations and poor populations in disease progression.
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An analysis of disclosure of HIV status, taken from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study, shows that many HIV-infected people fail to tell sexual partners about their status.
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Despite worldwide attention on sub-Saharan Africa and its AIDS epidemic, there is far too little access to HIV prevention services around the world, according to a recent report by the HIV Prevention Working Group.
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The diagnosis and management of patients with manifestations of drug-induced cardiotoxicity is challenging for even the most experienced emergency physician. The following report reviews the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of cardiotoxins to provide the front-line practitioners with evidence-based protocols for managing patients with life-threatening toxicity.
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Child abuse can be difficult to recognize, especially in the often chaotic environment of the emergency department. As the leaders of the community and medical safety net that is the ED, emergency physicians play a unique role in detecting, treating, and preventing child abuse. This issue of Emergency Medicine Specialty Reports provides an update on the patterns, diagnosis, and treatment of physical child abuse injuries.
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There are increasing numbers of women who have been cured of cancer but have residual endocrine and reproductive ovarian failure. In the current report, a novel approach for reconstituting ovarian function in selected patients is presented.
