Despite the widespread use of
AIDSLINE since 1988, there has been no in-depth research on the nature of its usage.
Mr Richard Gawley, company secretary of
Aidsline corr West Midlands, said: "In principle I would have no qualms about seeing people prosecuted for deliberately going out and infecting someone.
Unique features of CompuServe include access to the MEDLINE,
AIDSLINE, and National Cancer Institute databases.
The development of
AIDSLINE from the National Library of Medicine in 1988 provided a bibliographic database that brought together citations from multiple disciplines and databases such as BIOETHICSLINE, POPLINE, CATLINE, AVLINE, and others (DuPont & Dutcher, 1990).