AIDS
Since the beginning of this year AIDS has hardly been out of the news. But is it accurate to describe this virus as 'a plague'? Male homosexuals have been identified as the group in greatest danger, but the disease has been transmitted by blood transfusion. Has this danger now been eliminated? Do nurses, firemen, first aiders run the risks which have been reported?
Dr Anthony Pinching , clinical immunologist at St Mary's Hospital, London, and Tony Whitehead , Chairman of the Terrence Higgins Trust, a charity which provides advice on AIDS, are in the studio. In the Chair Barbara Myers
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