As a result, the Reagan Administration was shamefully passive in the face of an explosive epidemic, and some medical researchers, similarly colored by prejudice, initially dubbed the disease GRID, for "gay-related immune deficiency," despite evidence of infection among straight immigrants from the Caribbean and hemophiliacs who had received transfusions of tainted blood.
While the group did have over 80% agreement regarding the content of the disease grid (table 3), it was with the understanding that this tool represents a starting point that will be modified as new trial data are published.
Most of the sufferers, 457 at last count, have been young homosexual or bisexual men (another name for the disease is Grid, ie, gay-related immune deficiency).
This work was supported by the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
This study was supported by grants from the Program of Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID), MEXT, Japan.
This study was supported in part by the Global Centers of Excellence Program (2008 2012) and the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) (to KH).
This study was also supported in part by the Global COE Program (2008-2012) and Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) for KH.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/12/267/prepub This work was supported by the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) through the Tohoku-RITM Collaborating Center on Emerging and Reemerging Diseases.
This work was partly supported by a grant of National Center for Global Health and Medicine and by a grant from the Program of Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID), MEXT, Japan.
U. C. de S. is thankful for the support from his employer, Immunology Frontier Research Centre, Osaka University, and N. S. is grateful for funding from the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID).
This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid to S.M. from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan (grants H22-shinkou-ippan-006) and to H.O. for The Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.
