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The New Yorker wrote an article about Schmalz and his work on October 5, 1992 [9] and one month later he discussed his career and his illness during an appearance on Charlie Rose. On December 20, 1992, Schmalz wrote a first-person story for The New York Times titled, "Covering AIDS and Living with It: A Reporter's Testimony."
The hotline staff met with social service providers, the New York State AIDS institute, the New York Blood Center and the Hemophilia Foundation in order to coordinate resources for post-test counseling programs. Evidence of 623 calls received during the period of April 20, 1985, to May 24, 1985, demonstrated the effectiveness of this program.
On May 18, 1981, the New York Native, then America's most influential gay newspaper, published the first newspaper report on the disease that became known as AIDS.Having heard of a very rare type of pneumonia that struck some gay men, Lawrence D. Mass, the paper's medical writer, called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was advised that the rumors of a "gay cancer" were ...
In 1989, Gertz chose to publicly share her story and did an interview with The New York Times. She hoped to educate others about AIDS and dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding the disease. She stated: All the AIDS articles are about homosexuals or poor people on drugs, and unfortunately a lot of people just flip by them.
In October 1982, 634 people were reported having AIDS, and of those, 260 had died. The New York Times wrote three stories in 1981 and three more stories in 1982 about AIDS, none on the front page. [29] The Tylenol Crisis was a criminal act of product-tampering; Legionnaires' disease was a public health emergency.
The study shows that there was a significant decline in coverage of HIV/AIDS in mainstream press as news stories per month fell from 578.3 in 1993 to 140.5 in 2007. This is a 76% decrease. Newspaper coverage was at its highest after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in 1993 that AIDS had become the "leading cause of death ...
In an interview with the New York Times following the decision to expand eligibility, Haslip stated, "I am, and have been, a woman with AIDS despite the C.D.C. not wishing to count me. We have compelled them to."
Michael Callen (April 11, 1955 – December 27, 1993) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, author, and AIDS activist.Callen was diagnosed with AIDS in 1982 and became a pioneer of AIDS activism in New York City, working closely with his doctor, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and Richard Berkowitz.