The Disease Research Center (DRC) in Terminus is recognized as the leading Federated Commonwealths government agency for protecting the public health and safety of people.

In 1988, the DRC was on the frontlines of the battle against the AIDS epidemic. To that end, the DRC had begun infecting sims with HIV.

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