Living with tuberculosis: the prehistory of HIV/AIDS.

摘要

In 1981, HIV/AIDS arrived in people's lives, at doctors' clinics, and on policy makers' desks. It didn't take long before historical parallels were drawn. AIDS was plague returned, claimed some. Others countered with different historical lessons: people infected with HIV were being treated like lepers. Slightly more on the mark was the precedent sought in historical management of sexually transmitted diseases. Assessed equally as misguided or offering useful templates that could be tweaked, analysing the early "venereal disease" campaigns certainly repaid the policy and historical effort. But one disease that was rarely historically paralleled with HIV/AIDS was tuberculosis.