The Case For Contact Tracing
March, 1990
The story broke last Thanksgiving. The New York Times declared: "AIDS Study Warns of Women's False Sense of Security in 'Safe' Sex." The Chicago Tribune was more direct: "Man Infects 11 Women with AIDS Virus."One man living in Belgium had infected 11 women with HIV. The women were for the most part white, middle class and married; they had averaged two and a half sexual partners over a three-year period. The man was neither a drug addict nor a bisexual. Two of the women had c...
