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A primary care physician, who establishes long-term personal relationships with patients and coordinates their care, can protect poorer patients from some of the adverse health effects of poverty.

Two bacteria, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, are leading causes of meningitis and pneumonia worldwide, and yet in less developed countries health care workers think the diseases they prevent are infrequent or unimportant.

Researchers from the School of Public Health have fashioned a DNA-based vaccine, tailor-made from bits of nucleic acid that match a segment of the malaria parasite's own DNA, which short-circuits the parasite's development and blocks malaria transmission.

The Multicenter AIDS Cohort (MACS), a 15-year research project that has tracked the occurrence and consequences of HIV in the lives of homosexual and bisexual men, will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary on March 31, 1999.