The MACS has four main sites: Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
LAMS affiliated with UCLA and is supervised by Dr Roger Detels, MD & John Oishi.
[citation needed] The study, a program of the Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, has been ongoing since 1984 and has resulted in over 1,000 scientific publications.
It helped to establish that AIDS was the result of a viral illness and how HIV was spread.
Some participants who had many sexual partners were not infected, and this led to the realization that some people had genetic resistance to the virus.