Gabriel Rotello

A main concern among AIDS researchers is that HIV could become resistant to new drugs designed to vanquish it. In the following viewpoint, Gabriel Rotello contends that it is highly likely that one or more strains of drug-resistant HIV will develop in the near future. Furthermore, he warns, touting the new drugs as a cure for AIDS may result in an increase in unsafe sex practices and a reduction in AIDS prevention efforts. Combined with drug-resistant HIV, these factors could fuel an uncontrollable AIDS epidemic, he argues. Rotello is the author of Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men.

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1. What were the effects of antibiotics on syphilis and gonorrhea, according to Rotello?
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