Jos Frissen will soon give a lecture in the library for Blikopeners.
BAARN
On October 19, internist-infectiologist Jos Frissen will talk about his 32-year career in HIV care during Blikopeners in the Baarn library. Anyone who contracted AIDS in 1987 – the year that Frissen started working as a doctor in HIV care – was doomed. The disease was still untreatable, but thanks to the tireless efforts of (Dutch) doctors and scientists from all over the world, it became an easily treatable, chronic disease. Yet the disease still cannot be cured and there is still no vaccine.
by Maranke Pater
In 1981, the first reports in the medical literature were of a mysterious condition in which people developed very serious and unusual infections, which indicated a severely disrupted immune system. Frissen: “Panic broke out, because where did this come from, what was this, what was the cause, what size would this…
2023-10-15 18:02:08
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