Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: An Evaluation of the Federal Role : Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Special Hearing |
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Page 8 - AIDS cases had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), up from about 300 in 1981.
Page 8 - Since development of a vaccine is at least 5 years away and probably longer, Federal, State, and local health department officials and experts in the research community agree that education and prevention activities are the most powerful tools available to reduce the potential impact of the AIDS epidemic. Overall, the experts we interviewed concurred with the priorities reflected in the administration's...
Page 12 - First, the distribution of cases of AIDS and AIDS-related complex by diagnosis may change over time. For example, according to CDC, the proportion of AIDS patients with certain cancers, such as Kaposi's sarcoma, may decrease while severe lung infections, such as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, may increase. Since the latter is more expensive to treat, direct personal medical costs would be expected to rise. Other changes in casemix may also raise or lower total treatment costs. Second, numerous drugs...
Page 124 - Brazil, the only South American country covered in the eradication campaign, has the highest incidence of Aids in that region. About 14,000 Haitians, on United Nations secondment to Central Africa, were covered in the campaign. They began to return home at a time when Haiti had become a popular playground for San Francisco homosexuals.
Page 10 - AIDS education should be pursued with a sense of urgency and a level of funding that is appropriate for a life-or-death situation.
Page 124 - The link between the WHO program and the epidemic is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say that it actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV (the AIDS virus).
Page 8 - ... of the cases were clustered in highincidence areas, such as New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Houston. The Public Health Service predicts that there will be a total of 270,000 cases by 1991. While San Francisco and New York currently account for over half the cases, by 1991, 80 percent of the cases are predicted to be in other areas. The Public Health Service's budget for AIDS prevention and research has increased from $200,000 in fiscal year 1981 to over $790 million proposed...
Page 124 - The global eradication of smallpox: final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication (Geneva, December 1979).
Page 12 - AZT (azidothymidine) affect treatment costs in two ways — by raising pharmaceutical costs and by changing the clinical course of the disease. Patients on this drug may live longer but require different health care services, which may in turn raise or lower costs. Moreover, drugs like AZT may improve the quality of life and decrease productivity losses if AIDS patients can continue to work longer than would have been possible without the drug. Obviously, development of a cure or vaccine will change...
Page 59 - THE DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS at the University of Miami School of Medicine seeks a PRIMARY CARE PEDIATRICIAN, to join the faculty, with an interest in working with high risk children in community settings.