The AIDS crisis offers essential lessons for fighting COVID-19.

March 30, 2020 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, HEALTH, LIFESTYLES Comments Off on The AIDS crisis offers essential lessons for fighting COVID-19.
Dr. Rowena Johnston from amfAR outlines how the response to one epidemic could save lives in another. (Image: AP)

As we watch — and experience — the world’s response to the novel coronavirus, it’s useful to reflect on lessons learned from the response to the emerging threat of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s. Those were hard-won lessons, earned by doctors and…