Panic, paranoia, and public health--the AIDS epidemic's lessons for Ebola.

N Engl J Med

Mr. Gonsalves is the codirector of the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, and an AIDS activist; Mr. Staley is a longtime AIDS activist.

Published: December 2014

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