Why we still need to worry about AIDSBy The Doctors, for USA WEEKEND
Thirty years ago, a brief report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described five young men with a rare form of pneumonia usually seen in people with severely depressed immune systems — the men were previously healthy, the report noted; they were also "all active homosexuals." Experts later learned those were the first documented cases of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome — a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...