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AIDS and Homosexuality in Britain: A Historical Perspective

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Diseases in the Homosexual Male

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A significant feature of the current AIDS epidemic is the association that has been made between sex and disease. The fact that the transmission of the virus in developed countries has occurred in the main in male homosexuals, as well as in intravenous drug users, both groups that are already the subject of deeply rooted hostilities and discrimination, has had a profound impact on the social, political, economic, and even clinical responses to the disease.

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  1. Academic Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, James Pringle House, The Middlesex Hospital, W1N 8AA, London, UK

    Michael W. Adler MD, FRCP, FFCM (Professor of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Honorary Consultant, Physician) (Professor of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Honorary Consultant, Physician)

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Austoker, J. (1988). AIDS and Homosexuality in Britain: A Historical Perspective. In: Adler, M.W. (eds) Diseases in the Homosexual Male. The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1634-9_10

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