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Article: Who is going to treat growing numbers of AIDS patients. (30th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Atlanta)
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- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- December 1, 1990
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Who is going to treat growing numbers of AIDS patients?
Determining who is going to treat the escalating numbers of HIV-infected people is foremost on the minds of many health care providers, particularly infectious disease specialists, who currently provide the bulk of AIDS care.
At the 30th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, held recently in Atlanta, a special symposium was convened to discuss the potential shortage of physicians willing to treat HIV disease and the impact the epidemic has had on infectious disease specialists.
"I think we've got a big problem, and I'm very concerned," said Merle Sande, MD, chief ...