&quot;Government, Doctors Suppress Life Saving AIDS Treatment&quot;

"Government, Doctors Suppress Life Saving AIDS Treatment"

Title: "Government, Doctors Suppress Life Saving AIDS Treatment"
Description: A full page article in the communist newspaper The Workers Vanguard describing the delays in publication of medical research indicating the effectiveness of steroid hormone treatment for pneumonia in patients with AIDS and expressing general frustration at the logistical and political obstacles to the distribution of new drugs to treat AIDS. The article also describes medical researchers' failure to collaborate with community based doctors and researchers, as well as delays in communication of breakthroughs in testing and treatment in service of individual professional ambitions, inflexible regulatory processes, and private pharmaceutical interests. The author links impediments in the availability of new treatments to healthcare disparities faced by LGBTQ and BIPOC populations. The article occupies the entire seventh page of the December 14, 1990 edition of the Workers Vanguard.
Creator: The Workers Vanguard
Publisher: The Workers Vanguard
Date: December 14, 1990
Type: Newspaper Article
Format: PDF Image File, 2.5 MB
Language: English
Subject: AIDS activists, medical research,; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
Place: New York City
Temporal Coverage: December 14, 1990
Rights Holder: The Workers Vanguard
Rights: Copyright owned by The Workers Vanguard

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