RT Journal
A1 Katz MH
T1 HUman immunodeficiency virus is (once again) a primary care disease
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD April 25
VO 171
IS 8
SP 719
OP 720
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.130
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.130
AB 
In 1988, recognizing that there were not enough specialists to care for the burgeoning number of persons with AIDS, Northfelt et al1 wrote an influential editorial titled “The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Is a Primary Care Disease.” The authors exhorted all physicians to become knowledgeable about how to care for persons with AIDS. At that time, only one antiretroviral agent was available (zidovudine [AZT]) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral load testing, and HIV-resistance assays had not yet been invented.