title: AIDS: can we cope?
abstract: AIDS has become far more than just another disease; it has become a sensitive political issue, a social and moral problem, a cause of international tensions, a favourite media story and a cause for despair among those who may be infected. Familiarity breeds, if not contempt, then at least complacency; the risk of infection for individuals, even those who are highly sexually active, is often not personalized - people still perceive AIDS as something that happens to other people, not to themselves.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bury
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000635:transmission; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D011057:Politics; D012307:Risk Factors; D012940:Social Problems