NYT: With AIDS, Time to Get Beyond Blame

We cannot experience illness 
without casting around for blame. 
 
via NYT, by Abigail Zuger, M.D.

You don’t hear much about AIDS in America anymore. The few new headlines are reserved for dispatches from the developing world, where the dying young still make good old-fashioned heart-wrenching copy.

But AIDS endures right here in the U.S.A.: our outpatient clinics are bursting at the seams, and new cases show up daily. A million domestic stories are languishing untold, but they are not the operatic tragedies we have grown used to.

Instead, as illustrated by last week’s report about a Florida athlete indicted on charges of willfully transmitting H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, these are nuanced and complicated fables, with morals that extend beyond the disease itself.

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