id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-252039-732z92dd Valdiserri, Ronald O. Responding to Pandemics: What We’ve Learned from HIV/AIDS 2020-04-09 .txt text/plain 2074 102 49 Given the widespread implementation of social distancing (also known by the more accurate designation of "physical distancing") in response to COVID-19 disease, public health leaders are deeply interested in the outcomes of these same so-called "nonpharmaceutical interventions" when they were deployed in response to another deadly pandemic of a respiratory virus, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 [2] . Without denying the importance of prophylaxis that can prevent the acquisition of HIV [15] or the impact of effective treatments that can reduce viral load such that the risk of sexual transmission is essentially nil [16] , we would not be able to realistically visualize the end of AIDS in the United States without the continued public investment in systems that are necessary to prevent infection, improve health outcomes for those living with HIV and monitor changes in disease spread and outcome. ./cache/cord-252039-732z92dd.txt ./txt/cord-252039-732z92dd.txt