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The AIDS epidemic is an evolving phenomenon. Instead of one epidemic, we ended up with a set of epidemics: the HIV epidemic, the AIDS epidemic, and the epidemic of fear. It started as a medical problem and was converted into a multidimensional process. Ethical, political, social, managerial, and economic issues emerged in connection with it.
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Lucas, J.S. (1990). Social and Political Aspects of AIDS. In: Schwefel, D., Leidl, R., Rovira, J., Drummond, M.F. (eds) Economic Aspects of AIDS and HIV Infection. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84089-0_4
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