Funding relationships are conceptualized as social and economic exchanges within changing organizational populations. Recipients seek financial support for ongoing and new projects that are consistent ...

Dr. Bob Brandt Jr. diagnosed his first AIDS patient in 1983, just three years after graduating from the charter class at Wright State University School of Medicine. Over the following decades he would ...

In 1981 Dr. Paul Volberding was doing rounds on his first day at San Francisco General when he found a patient who presented symptoms of a rare cancer, Kaposi Sarcoma. He reported his findings.

1981 — The first cases of an unnamed disease are reported in five gay men in Los Angeles. 1982 — The disease became known as “acquired immune deficiency syndrome” or AIDS. 1983 — The retrovirus that ...

In the early 1980s, before the discovery that AIDS was caused by a new immunodeficiency virus now known as HIV-1, most patients with AIDS died within 2 years. [1] Early in the course of this epidemic, ...

Background: Brazil is known for its AIDS control program, including universal access to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Survival data is one indicator for program monitoring and evaluation.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Several European countries are considering implementing surveillance systems for HIV infection, but questions remain regarding patient ...