Concept information
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environmental, urban and regional sociology
environmental sociology
biology and chemistry
HIV/AIDS
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applied social psychology
health psychology
epidemiology of risk and protective factors
HIV/AIDS
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disease, disability, health, and health behavior
infectious disease
sexually transmitted diseases
HIV/AIDS
Preferred term
politics of AIDS
Definition
- From the discovery of a new epidemic disease among healthy young men in the United States in 1981, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has been a very political disease. The new disease was first described as gay-related immune deficiency, an association that has affected the course of the disease ever since. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; AIDS, Politics of]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/politics_of_AIDS
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