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  2. Ronald Reagan and AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Reagan was a devout Christian, and personally held the belief that homosexuality was a sin. In early 1987, Reagan had a discussion on the AIDS epidemic with his biographer, Edmund Morris, in which Reagan commented, "maybe the Lord brought down this plague" because "illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments". [94]

  3. President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic - Wikipedia

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    The President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic was a commission formed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 to investigate the AIDS pandemic. It is also known as the Watkins Commission for James D. Watkins, its chairman when the commission issued its final report in 1988.

  4. Domestic policy of the Ronald Reagan administration

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    Reagan prevented his Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, from speaking out about the AIDS epidemic. [97] When in 1986 Reagan was highly encouraged by many other public officials to authorize Koop to issue a report on the epidemic, he expected it to be in line with conservative policies; instead, Koop's Surgeon General's Report on Acquired Immune ...

  5. Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia

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    The AIDS epidemic began to unfold in 1981, [305] and AIDS was initially difficult to understand for physicians and the public. [306] As the epidemic advanced, according to White House physician and later physician to the president, brigadier general John Hutton, Reagan thought of AIDS as though "it was the measles and would go away".

  6. CDC site scrubs HIV content following Trump DEI policies

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    During the 1980s, activists excoriated President Ronald Reagan for his administration’s slow response to the burgeoning AIDS crisis that was decimating the gay community.

  7. HIV/AIDS in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV, found its way to the United States between the 1970s and 1980s, [2] but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.

  8. Doctors on frontlines of HIV epidemic recall early days ... - AOL

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    Three health care leaders talk about what it was like to be on the frontlines of the fight against HIV and AIDS in the 1980s to now.

  9. Looking at Reagan Through the Lens of Trump (opinion) - AOL

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    Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use the past to make sense of the present. Looking at Reagan Through the Lens ...