Volume 30, Number 13 · August 18, 1983
Anatomy of an Epidemic
By Jonathan Lieberson
The AIDS Epidemic
edited by Kevin M. Cahill MD.
St. Martin's, 173 pp., $12.95
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach
by Richard Berkowitz, by Michael Callen, with editorial assistance by Richard Dworkin
News from the Front (New York), 40 pp., $3.00
Gay Men's Health: A Guide to the AID Syndrome and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases
by Jeanne Kassler MD.
Harper and Row, 166 pp., $7.95
Since it was first recognized in 1979 and until very recently, the incidence of the diseases grouped under the acronym AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) roughly doubled every six months, with about five cases being reported a day in the US (and about two a day in New York City). The overall national mortality rate has been 39 percent; half of all AIDS patients die before the end of the first year of the illness and nearly all before the end of the third year. According to a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as of July 1, 1983, 1,737 people have been afflicted by the disease, and 678 of them have died.
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