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A demonstrator waves a placard using the "Silence=Death" slogan during a 2017 event in New York City.Activist groups focused on HIV/AIDS in the United States initially drew their numbers from the bisexual, lesbian, and male homosexual communities as a whole, with socio-political campaigns including culturally active patients who were struggling with their healthcare themselves.
Parvin arranged for Reagan and Koop to have a one-on-one meeting on the subject, but the White House insisted on adding political advisors such as William Bennett and Gary Bauer to the meeting, resulting in an argument between Koop, who favored emphasizing what was known about the spread of AIDS from a medical perspective, and the conservative ...
Mary Fisher (born April 6, 1948) is an American political activist, artist and author.After contracting HIV from her second husband, she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention, education and for the compassionate treatment of people with HIV and AIDS.
While the numbers do show that the cases of AIDS from gay men who had sex with other men in San Francisco was higher than New York's (85% in SF compared to 65% in NYC), the numbers show that the AIDS cases that came from IV drug use were also a big problem amongst women in New York. [38] Out of the 221 AIDS cases listed in the report, 60% (725 ...
Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday.
The San Diego Blood Sisters were a group who sponsored and organized lesbian blood drives during the AIDS epidemic.Established by members of the Women's Caucus of the San Diego Democratic Club, [1] the Blood Sisters sought to gather an adequate blood supply for AIDS patients, primarily gay men who often required many transfusions due to anemia. [2]
The tombstone, revolver and grim reaper imagery of the 1980s and early 1990s have cast a long shadow. AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt our view of HIV – that must ...
Since the first AIDS case was reported in 1981, some 25 million people have died from the disease. On this episode of The Switch Up, activists explain how they are working to educate communities…