A doctor writing in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that government attacks and fear are undermining decades of progress against HIV in the United States.
A new Perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine warns that momentum in tackling the HIV epidemic in the United States is slowing. The author, Ofole Mgbako MD, points to what he describes as government attacks and a climate of fear as factors contributing to that stall.
But the piece is not solely a warning. Mgbako argues that clinicians, patients, and activists can draw lessons from the people who fought hardest during the epidemic’s earliest years — and use those lessons to push progress forward again.
The article was shared by the journal’s official account and has drawn attention from health professionals and advocates. The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most widely read peer-reviewed medical journals in the world.
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Source: @NEJM