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Maureen Miller

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Professor, Columbia University Medical Center

A nurse is shown taking blood for a HIV test from French President Emmanuel Macron who is sitting in a yellow chair cringing.

AIDS treatment has progressed, but without a vaccine, suffering still abounds

November 30, 2018Health & Medicine

World AIDS Day is Dec. 1. With many advances in preventing and treating the disease, the disease has fallen from top of mind for many. An epidemiologist explains why that could be dangerous.

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