AIDS Issues: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First [and Second] Session, Volúmenes 100-140U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 |
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AIDS education AIDS patients AIDS virus AIDS-related complex BARRY Black and Hispanic Burroughs Wellcome centers Chairman city of Houston clinical trials cost DANNEMEYER diagnosis disease donate blood drug abusers drug users effective efforts epidemic exposure Federal funding going HAIGLER Harris County HAUGHTON HCWs health-care workers hearing heterosexual Hispanic HIV antibody HIV infection homosexual hospital Houston HTLV HTLV-III HTLV-III/LAV human human T-lymphotropic virus identified immune immunodeficiency intravenous drug issue Kaposi's sarcoma KIHNEL LELAND MADIGAN Male MCFARREN Medicaid Medicaid program Medicare million minority opportunistic infections pediatric percent person with AIDS physicians population positive problem Public Health Service question reported RETROVIR risk factors risk for AIDS ROPER serologic testing spread statement subcommittee syndrome Texas Thank therapy tients tion Transfusion transmission category treatment treatment IND WAXMAN Western blot WINDOM WYDEN
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Página 243 - Concentrations ranging from approximately 500 ppm (1:100 dilution of household bleach) sodium hypochlorite to 5,000 ppm (1:10 dilution of household bleach) are effective depending on the amount of organic material (eg, blood, mucus) present on the surface to be cleaned and disinfected.
Página 207 - The Impact of Routine HTLV-III Antibody Testing of Blood and Plasma Donors on Public Health," Journal of the Aaartean Medical Association 256:1778-1783 (1986).
Página 178 - AIDS cases had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), up from about 300 in 1981.
Página 220 - Gerberding JL, Bryant-LeBlanc CE, Nelson K, et al. Risk of transmitting the human immunodeficiency virus, cytomegalovirus, and hepatitis B virus to health care workers exposed to patients with AIDS and AIDS-related conditions. J Infect Dis 1987:156:1-8.
Página 207 - Centers for Disease Control. Public Health Service guidelines for counseling and antibody testing to prevent HIV infection and AIDS.
Página 180 - ... treatment are constantly occurring, particularly in highincidence cities. For example, there is evidence that the average length of hospital stays is declining as outpatient diagnosis and treatment practices develop. Moreover, therapeutic interventions such as AZT affect the costs of treating AIDS 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 a different mix of treatment services. This may...
Página 207 - Burke DS, Brandt BL. Redfield RR, et al. Diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection by immunoassay using a molecularly cloned and expressed virus envelope polypeptide: comparison to Western blot on 2707 consecutive serum samples.
Página 177 - AIDS education of the high risk groups and the general population should be pursued with a sense of urgency, and a level of funding that is appropriate for a life-ordeath situation.
Página 75 - AIDS and 947 persons (741 men, 206 women) without other identified risks who were born in countries in which heterosexual transmission is believed to play a major role although precise means of transmission have not yet been defined.
Página 178 - 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 AIDS prevention budget for fiscal year 1988 — limiting the spread of AIDS among intravenous...