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politics of AIDS  

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  • From the discovery of a new epidemic disease among healthy young men in the United States in 1981, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has been a very political disease. The new disease was first described as gay-related immune deficiency, an association that has affected the course of the disease ever since. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; AIDS, Politics of]

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