AIDS Lecture September 13, 1988
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Address
By
C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD
Surgeon General
Of the
U.S. Public Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Presented to Blue Cross Blue Shield
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 13, 1988

 

After speaking to the National P.T.A. on the subject of smoking and AIDS on the 19" of
June, 1988, I spoke on almost exactly the same subject to the annual meeting of the
American Medical Association’s Auxiliary in Chicago, Illinois, on the 26" of J une, 7
days later. Unfortunately, no copy of that speech can be found, and the next occasion
that I presented the subject of AIDS to a public audience was — for this period of time — a
relatively long time later, on September 13, 1988, 80 days after my last public appearance
on AIDS.

After that long relative silence, I gave speech that really covered the subject of AIDS, as
the dew covers the ground, I will not attempt to summarize it here, because it is the whole
story of about AIDS, and has been discussed in great detail over the past year, in multiple
lectures. I am including an index of topics covered, but suggest to the user, that this is a
wonder place to be brought up to date, as of the middle of September 1988.

It is not difficult to remember a lot about giving this lecture in Philadelphia. Being a
Philadelphian by adoption, and having so many times enjoyed performances at the
Venerable Academy of Music, it was a real thrill to speak in that venue, and look up at
the audience, not only in the orchestra and the loges, but in multiple balconies above that,
omately decorated for shear beauty. There is no venue that compares with this one.
AIDS and Abstinence

AIDS and Blood Transfusions

AIDS and Children

AIDS and Discrimination

AIDS and Government Guidelines

AIDS and the Health Workers Workforce

AIDS and Monogamy

AIDS and Newborn Babies

AIDS and Prostitution

AIDS and Responsibility; Professional, Social, and Personal

AIDS and the Sexual Partners of IV Drug Abusers

AIDS as a Disease of the Century

“Alternative” Health Services

 
America’s History of Charity, Tolerance, and Responsiveness
Atypical Tuberculosis

AZT as a Pro-longer of Life

Blood Transfusions and Hemophiliacs

Candidiasis of the Esophagus and Respiratory Tract
Chances of Getting Contaminated Blood Transfusions
Cytomegaloviral infections

Disproportionate AIDS Prevalence in Black and Hispanic Populations
Education of Children about Human Sexuality

Elisa Test

Failure to Treat HIV Positive People

Fatality of the Disease

Global situation of AIDS

Histoplasmosis

HIV and Blood Semen and Vaginal Fluid

How the Virus is Not Transmitted

IV Drug Abuse and AIDS

Kapoi’s Sarcoma

Latex Condoms

Many AIDS Victims Not in Mainstream of Healthcare
Opportunistic diseases

Poor epidemiological reporting for many countries
Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia

Progressive Coccidiomyscosis

Statistics on AIDS by country, state, city (especially Philadelphia)
Targets of HIV in the human body

Transmission of the AIDS virus

Ulcerative Herpes

Under-estimate of the severity of the epidemic
Vaccine Testing

Western Blot Test