AIDS Lecture February lo,1989 18/19 Current Issues in AIDS BY C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD Surgeon General Ofthe U.S. Public Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Presented to the Greater Albuquerque Medical Association Albuquerque, New Mexico February lo,1989 It had been 15 days since I had addressed a public audience on the AIDS epidemic. I was in Albuquerque for other government reasons, presenting an address primarily to medical students and faculty at the New Mexico Medical Center in Albuquerque. This was an add-on. With so many speeches to prepare, I presented "Current Issues in AIDS" which I had presented last to the Bexar County Medical Society in San Antonio, Texas on January 25,1989, which was a redo of the original speech I gave to the American Council on Life Insurance in New York on the 15th of November, 1988. Except for changing things to make it appropriate to this audience, there are no new salient facts about the AIDS epidemic, and there is no index.