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McCaskell became aware of AIDS through reading the US news. [14] Although he was not formally diagnosed until testing became available in 1986, he suspected he had HIV as early as 1981. [15] [3] Since the late 1980s, McCaskell has been involved in HIV/AIDS activism, particularly with AIDS Action Now! (AAN), which he co-founded.
Her efforts in HIV/AIDS activism and in supporting the broader issue of civil rights involving violence against women has involved setting up the charitable group known as the Girl Child Network, and the U.S. news publication The Huffington Post has commented upon her "courageous work", especially given the socio-political tensions around human ...
As a gay news reporter, Humm has covered virtually every major gay and AIDS news story since the 1980s. [2] Humm began writing regularly for the gay press in the 1970s and 1980s when he worked for New York City News. [2] Humm began hosting gay news programs with Pride and Progress, aired on the Gay Cable Network (GCN), in 1985.
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 World Health Organization established World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 1988. Thousands were contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Since the first AIDS case was reported in 1981, some 25 ...
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 ...
The case of the "Florida Dracula Dentist" has gone down in AIDS history alongside "Patient Zero" Gaetan Dugas as legends who have been unfairly demonized. The time between Bergalis' dental procedure and the development of AIDS (24 months) [ 9 ] was short; 1% of infected homosexual / bisexual men [ 10 ] and 5% of infected transfusion recipients ...
The late Joan Rivers is known as a pioneering woman in comedy, but she was also a pioneer in AIDS activism. The comedian was one of the first celebrities to lend her fame to the fight against AIDS ...