To respond to monkeypox, health officials’ playbook informed by failures of the AIDS crisis - PBS NewsHour

With the monkeypox outbreak, officials have a playbook to work from — one written during the worst missteps of the AIDS crisis, as well as the collaborations that ultimately helped curtail the HIV epidemic and other outbreaks.

As officials, researchers and activists scramble to control an emerging monkeypox outbreak, many are doing so with another virus constantly wedged in the back of their minds: HIV. The parallels betw… [+9716 chars]

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