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The AIDS Crisis: Episode 1 - Gay Plague

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The CDC's Role in Addressing a Health Crisis

This chapter highlights the essential role of the CDC in distributing pentamidine to combat pneumocystis pneumonia during the early AIDS epidemic. It chronicles the organization's investigation into alarming trends in pneumonia cases among young gay men, catalyzed by increasing requests for the life-saving drug.

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