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2. HIV/AIDS in the United States - Wikipedia

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   One of the best known works on the history of HIV/AIDS is the 1987 book And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts, which contends that Ronald Reagan's administration dragged its feet in dealing with the crisis due to homophobia, while the gay community viewed early reports and public health measures with corresponding distrust, thus allowing the ...

3. Robert Rayford - Wikipedia

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   Robert Lee Rayford [1] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [2] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medical evidence ...

4. Ronald Reagan and AIDS - Wikipedia

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   The first treatment for HIV/AIDS, AZT, was not approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) until 1987. [5] In the United States, AIDS disproportionately affected, and continues to affect, members of the LGBT community, with gay men and transgender women being the most at risk. [6] [7] [8]

5. Gaëtan Dugas - Wikipedia

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   Aids Vancouver 30 30 Archived February 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine - archive footage of Gaetan Dugas speaking at an AIDS Vancouver forum (beginning at ~5:45) 'Patient Zero' no more - study reported in Science Magazine (Vol. 351, Issue 6277, pp. 1013), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (Article)

6. And the Band Played On - Wikipedia

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   And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a 1987 book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts.The book chronicles the discovery and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then ...

7. How Magic Johnson's HIV diagnosis changed the ... - AOL

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   Fullilove: HIV/AIDS was, until the arrival of effective medications, a routinely fatal condition. If you were doing HIV work in 1990, you were basically engaged in prevention.

8. Timeline of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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   This is a timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before 1980. Pre-1980s See also: Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th century, a form of Simian immunodeficiency virus found in chimpanzees (SIVcpz) first entered humans in Central Africa and began circulating in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) by the 1920s. This gave rise ...

9. History of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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   Why this is important comes from how multi-dimensional the disease’s impact is. The word “impact” itself has been a word very commonly seen in articles and studies on the HIV/AIDS virus/disease, but what it really means relates to how impact is not a cause and effect action, but the “reaction or response” it brings out. [116]