Mayer discusses practical and ethical dilemmas in the design and use of epidemiological studies of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Such studies may prove very helpful in curtailing the AIDS epidemic, but they pose a threat of discrimination to members of high-risk groups and the general community. The problems discussed fall into the areas of selection of a valid sample of subjects, interpretations of "AIDS tests," and public health interventions based on epidemiological data. (KIE abstract)
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Kenneth Hugh Mayer (1985) studied this question.