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Recognize Dermatologists for Their Role in HIV, AIDS Fight, Review Says – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the initial appearance in the United States of what we now know to be HIV and AIDS, first manifesting as Pneumocystis carinii…
Their practice encompassed the study of sexually transmitted infections up until the 1950s, the authors of this historical review note, at which point they relinquished care of these patients to others. Following a several-decades gap, the HIV/AIDS epidemic necessitated their expertise once more in the study of STIs, also known as venereal diseases, owing to the cutaneous manifestations of HIV.
They soon came to serve as some of the first advocates for these marginalized patients. And yet, their…
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