The Nation - News from Aug. 27, 1985
New York state announced guidelines for hospital care of AIDS patients, saying that a diagnosis of acquired immune deficiency syndrome is “not sufficient reason to refuse admission.” The state health department, responding to complaints that AIDS sufferers are barred from hospitals or neglected as patients, said there is no evidence that hospital personnel risk contracting the disease on the job.
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