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needs, let alone the increase in HIV. The Commission is alarmed
that many rural areas and small towns are currently unable, and
often unaware, of their need to deal with the three epidemics of
HIV infection, drug addiction and sexually transmitted diseases.
The Commission's third issue is concern over the crisis
shortage of health care providers willing to care for people living
with HIV infection and AIDS. The Commission found that among health
care workers, many refuse to treat people with HIV or AIDS out of
fear of infection on the job, others claim lack of training, and
some simply discriminate against people with HIV infection or AIDS.
"The Commission's findings should give all of us -- the White
House, Congress and the American people --a sense of urgency," said
Dr. June Osborn, Chairman of the National Commission on AIDS.
"Many infected people aren't getting the care and access to
clinical trials at the levels they need; many parts of rural
America are about to be blind sided by the epidemic; and perhaps
least excusable, many health care workers still refuse to fulfill
their obligations to the sick if the disease is HIV," she added.
"These issues are at the cutting edge of the epidemic which
is certain to become much worse in the 1990s than the 1980s, even
if we were somehow able to stop all further infections tomorrow,"
Dr. Osborn said.
The Commission's report includes the following six
recommendations:-more-
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National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. [Release: Commission Reports on Problems in AIDS Clinical Research Program; the Hidden Epidemic in Rural America; And the Health Care Worker Crisis], text, August 21, 1990; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc915809/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.