title: Living with the dying: an early AIDS experience.
abstract: The HIV/AIDS epidemic in boys and men with hemophilia began in the early 1980s with the puzzling occurrence of systemic illness and fatal opportunistic infections in patients who had received plasma-derived clotting factor concentrates. This brief narrative describes one physician's experience in caring for patients with hemophilia and HIV infection early in the epidemic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Humanities, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. jobhemedoc1@msn.com
authors.forename: James O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Ballard
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D003643:Death; D058872:Epidemics; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
keywords: AIDS; HIV infection; Hemophilia; epidemic