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ShareHistory of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
See also: Origins of HIV
Overviews and Articles
- ACT UP Oral History Project Brings Activists' Words to Your Ears (Regularly Updated)
An online collection of more than two dozen (and growing) interviews with many of the people who were at the forefront of the original AIDS activist movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
From ACT UP Oral History Project - The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Timeline of Key Milestones (Regularly Updated)
An interactive timeline designed to serve as a reference tool for many of the political, scientific, cultural and community events that have occurred since the beginning of the epidemic.
From Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - After 25 Years, a Landmark HIV Study Is Still Going Strong (April 25, 2009)
The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) is one for the history books: It's one of the most important HIV/AIDS studies ever done, and over the past 25 years it has brought about many major discoveries.
From National Public Radio - 25 Years of HIV (May 15, 2008)
In Nature - Dr. Anthony Fauci Reflects on 25 Years of HIV (May 14, 2008)
From National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - On an HIV Anniversary, Scientists Talk About the Progress of HIV Research (May 9, 2008)
From National Public Radio - HIV Arrived in U.S. From Haiti 10 Years Earlier Than Previously Believed, Study Says (October 31, 2007)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Twenty-Five Years in the Fight Against AIDS: What Have We Learned? (October 2006)
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In Project Inform Perspective, from Project Inform - Kramer: Nuremberg Trials for AIDS (June 19, 2006)
From The Petrelis Files - Top 10: 2005 -- 10 Most Important Developments in HIV Medicine (December 2005)
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In IAPAC Monthly, from International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care - The 10 Most Important Developments in HIV Medicine in 2001 (August 2005)
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In IAPAC Monthly, from International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care - 20 Years Later, HIV's Discoverer Reflects on a Long, Hard Battle (November 12, 2004)
The Baltimore Sun recently sat down with Dr. Gallo to reflect on the epidemic's past, present and future.
In The Baltimore Sun - Change and Rumors of Change (September/October 2004)
26 AIDS advocates from around the world explain how their communities have changed in the past year.
In GMHC Treatment Issues, from Gay Men's Health Crisis - How AIDS Gave Gays Marriage (May 21, 2004)
In the 1980s, many people assumed that the U.S. AIDS crisis would push gay men even further out of mainstream society; as Christopher Caldwell explains, they couldn't have been more wrong.
In Financial Times
First Reports of HIV in the U.S.
- HIV/AIDS: A Disease Named, Research Continues (August 2006)
From Infectious Disease News - HIV/AIDS: Unfolding Cases of an Escalating, Rare Cancer (July 2006)
From Infectious Disease News - HIV/AIDS: The Discovery of an Unknown, Deadly Virus (June 2006)
From Infectious Disease News - Follow-Up on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocycstis Pneumonia (PDF) (August 28, 1981)
In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocycstis Pneumonia Among Homosexual Men -- New York City and California (PDF) (July 4, 1981)
In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Pneumocycstis Pneumonia -- Los Angeles (PDF) (June 5, 1981)
In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention