Koop: AIDS is the 'forgotten epidemic'
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Koop: AIDS is the 'forgotten epidemic'

Washington : DC : USA | Nov 17, 2010 at 12:24 PM PST
Source: Seattle Times
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Calling it the "forgotten epidemic," former Surgeon General C...Calling it the "forgotten epidemic," former Surgeon General C...Wednesday at a panel discussion on the epidemic, as scientists and medical professionals prepared to open a national summit on the disease. FULL ARTICLE AT Seattle Times
 
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