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Oral history interview with Bruce Evatt, 1991

Creator: Evatt, Bruce L.
Project: Hemophilia oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript: 42 pages Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Scope and Contents

Early work in blood coagulation at CDC (Centers for Disease Control), leading to interest in persons with hemophilia; involvement in setting up comprehensive hemophilia care program in Atlanta, Georgia; involvement in helping to develop monoclonal antibody for Factor VIII at CDC; early realization that HIV might be infecting people with hemophilia through the blood supply; difficulties of convincing the Federal Drug Administration, blood banks, and the leadership of the National Hemophilia Foundation that AIDS was transmitted via the blood supply, complicated by a lack of understanding of epidemiological trends; components of the hemophilia community; difficulties in dealing with issues of sexual transmission and HIV testing among people with hemophilia; appearance of HIV in wives of people with hemophilia; issues of funding regarding HIV prevention in people with hemophilia; increased consumer voice among the hemophilia community; "the model" of comprehensive care for hemophilia; importance of looking at individual patients as well as at epidemiological trends; economic issues regarding hemophilia treatment

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