Document Type
Presentation
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Utah State University Faculty Honor Lectures
Publisher
The Faculty Association, Utah State University
Publication Date
11-6-1990
Abstract
It is perhaps a measure of today's society that a new disease of potentially world-wide implication does not gain national or international attention until a famous person contracts it. This was particularly seen with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) when it became known that Rock Hudson of movie and TV acclaim was dying of it. By the time the celebrated pianist and entertainer Liberace died of AIDS, the various public health agencies around the world had begun to focus on the problem, and enormous sums of money were being committed toward its control. Today, more U.s. dollars are budgeted for AIDS than are being spent for any other disease, including cancer
Recommended Citation
Sidwell, Robert W., "AIDS: Implications to Society and Approaches to Control" (1990). Faculty Honor Lectures. Paper 54.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/honor_lectures/54
Comments
This work made publicly available electronically on August 16, 2011.