AIDS TREATMENT RESEARCH DELAYS: MAJOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORT

A four-part series on delays in AIDS treatment development is appearing Monday, January 30 through Thursday, February 2 in the San Francisco Chronicle. We have seen only the first part by press time, but already this series looks like the most comprehensive report of AIDS drug delays ever published in a major newspaper. Experts and officials who have long been afraid to tell the public what is wrong in AIDS research have spoken more openly in this series than ever before.

The reporter, Chronicle correspondent Randy Shilts, also wrote And the Band Played On (new edition from Penguin Books, New York, 1988), a history of earlier Federal mismanagement of AIDS prevention, education, and research.

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