Mainstreaming HIV care; as the epidemic fans out across the country, primary care physicians everywhere are being called on to threat this increasingly chronic disease

Article Abstract:

The AIDS epidemic has grown to such proportions that physicians throughout the country are becoming involved in the treatment of the disease. When AIDS was first recognized by the medical community in the early 1980's, 80% of the cases were restricted to six metropolitan areas. Because of the increasing incidence of AIDS since the early 1980's, those six areas now account for only 40% of the reported cases. With almost half a million people infected with AIDS as of Jun 1994, the capacity of AIDS specialist to treat the infected is less than what is needed.

Care and treatment, Analysis, Medical care, Statistics

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Medical practice uncertain for tomorrow's physicians

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Speakers at the 1996 meeting of the American Medical Assn's Medical Student Section told attendees that, in the future, fewer physicians will be needed and that those physicians will need to know more about business, epidemiology, and population-based medicine. AMA Trustee William Jacott, who heads the University of Minnesota's Dept of Family Medicine, said that academic medicine will need to develop curricula that prepare physicians for future corporate and clinical responsibilities.

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Professional Organizations, Colleges and universities, Medical Associations, Doctoral Degrees, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Forecasts and trends, Medical students, Medical societies

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AMA offers new HIV prevention guide for physicians

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The American Medical Association (AMA) is offering physicians a guidebook on how to help patients prevent the contracting of HIV. The guide urges doctors to ask patients about sexual behavior and possible drug use when they discuss HIV prevention. Between 650,000 and 900,000 people in the US had HIV as of 1992. The AMA guide will be sent to approximately 200,000 primary care physicians in the US.

Prevention, HIV infection, HIV infections, Information services, Physicians (General practice), General practitioners

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