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In 2002, she and her brother Richard co-founded The Well Project, [5] a nonprofit organization that "works to improve the lives of women living with HIV and AIDS, and to change the course of the AIDS pandemic by focusing on treatment and prevention for women." [5] Much of Averitt's work has focused on including women and people of color in ...
The AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s and brought with it a surge of emotions from the public: they were afraid, angry, fearful and defiant. The arrival of AIDS also brought with it a condemnation of the LGBT community. These emotions, along with the view on the LGBT community, paved the way for a new generation of artists. [1]
Goodwin advocated for closing gay bathhouses and requiring blood donors to provide sexual histories, while Phillips pushed for a position of only discussing the AIDS pandemic in the context of homosexuality as a moral failing, putting the blame for AIDS on its victims for being gay. [25] Many conservatives of the era echoed similar sentiments. [27]
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.
President Biden called for a fight against “stigma” and “misinformation” on World AIDS Day in remarks at the White House. “We stand united in the fight against this epidemic,” Biden ...
Operation Denver [3] [4] [5] (sometimes referred to as "Operation INFEKTION") was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS [6] [7] as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Jun. 26—In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report describing a rare lung condition affecting the immune system of five young gay men in California. By the ...
HIV/AIDS became the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25 to 34. [36] Black women are found to be 15 to 20 times as likely to become infected with HIV/AIDS than their white counterparts. [36] [38] Latina women are found to be 4 times as likely to contract HIV/AIDS than white women. [38] 2018 The CDC determines 14.1% of all ...