On June 5, 1981, when the Centers for Disease Control reportedfive cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in young homosexualmen in Los Angeles,1 few suspected it heralded a pandemic ofAIDS. In 1983, a retrovirus (later named the human immunodeficiencyvirus, or HIV) was isolated from a patient with AIDS. In the25 years since the first report, more than 65 million personshave been infected with HIV, and more than 25 million have diedof AIDS. Worldwide, more than 40 percent of new infections amongadults are in young people 15 to 24 years of age.2
Dr. Merson is a professor at the Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Conn., and director of Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS.
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