America Living With AIDS

AMERICA Living With AIDS
We can't go any longer in
trying to provide care without addressing the underlying failures of our
health care system. It's a national shame that we do not guarantee
health care to all of our people. We are struggling now against enormous
odds, both for the acute care needs of people with HIV infection as well as
the long-term needs of people with HIV infection. We're not going to
improve longevity if people can't get into care.
We need to improve our
education efforts. I cannot believe that we have not put more resources
into education at the community level so that both women and
men will recognize that they are at some risk for HIV infection and can
make some kind of informed choice about whether to access health
care, if it exists, in their community.
KATHRYN ANASTOS, M.D.
June 1991