AIDS | Combination Drug Treatments May Worsen the AIDS Crisis
A main concern among AIDS researchers is that HIV could become resistant to new drugs designed to vanquish it. In the following viewpoint, Gabriel Rotello contends that it is highly likely that one or more strains of drug-resistant HIV will develop in the near future. Furthermore, he warns, touting the new drugs as a cure for AIDS may result in an increase in unsafe sex practices and a reduction in AIDS prevention efforts. Combined with drug-resistant HIV, these factors could fuel an uncontrollable AIDS epidemic, he argues. Rotello is the author of Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the...
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
- Chapter 2 Preface
- Routine Testing Would Control the Spread of AIDS
- Mandatory Testing of Pregnant Women and Infants Would Not Reduce the Spread of AIDS
- Home HIV Tests Will Reduce the Spread of AIDS
- Home HIV Tests are Unethical
- Health Care Workers Should Be Tested For HIV
- Mandatory Testing of Health Care Workers is Unjustified
- Partner Notification of HIV Status Would Reduce the Spread of AIDS
- Partner Notification Would Not Reduce the Spread of AIDS
- Chapter 2 Periodical Bibliography
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Chapter 3
- Chapter 3 Preface
- Condom Use Can Reduce the Spread of AIDS
- Condom Use Will Increase the Spread of AIDS
- AIDS Prevention Programs for Teenagers Should Emphasize Safe Sex
- AIDS Prevention Programs for Teenagers Should Emphasize Abstinence
- Needle Exchange Programs Can Control the Spread of AIDS
- Needle Exchange Programs Will Not Control the Spread of AIDS
- Education Programs Prevent High-Risk Behavior
- Education Programs for Gay Men are Badly Flawed
- Education Programs Should Target High-Rist Groups
- Chapter 3 Periodical Bibliography
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Chapter 4
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Drug Combinations Can Inhibit the AIDS Virus
- Drug Combinations May Not Inhibit the AIDS Virus
- Medical Marijuana Should Be Legalized For Use By AIDS Patients
- Medical Marijuana Should Not Be Legalized for Use by AIDS Patients
- AIDS Should Be Treated With Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Chinese Therapies Can Help AIDS Patients
- Chapter 4 Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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