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History of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
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
- HIV in Humans May Be 100 Years Old, Researchers Say (July 25, 2008)
In Science
- 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
- Twenty-Seven Years of Women Living With HIV: Past, Present and Future (January 1, 2008)
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In Twenty-Seven Years of Women Living With HIV: Past, Present and Future, from Terri Wilder
- 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
- A Brief History of HIV (September/October 2007)
A look at the medical and political landscape.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Reason, Rationality and Madness and the AIDS Epidemic (October/November 2006)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- 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
- Timeline: 25 Years of AIDS (May 30, 2006)
From PBS
- History of the HIV Epidemic (PowerPoint) (March 2006)
11 slides detailing the history of the HIV epidemic, focusing on antiretroviral treatment.
From New York/New Jersey AETC
- A Look Back at 1981-1986: In the Beginning of HIV and AIDS ... (January/February 2006)
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In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- HAART Turns 10 (January/February 2006)
At the 10-year anniversary of the combination HIV treatment era, Guy Pujol takes a look back at how far we've come, and on what the next 10 years may hold in store.
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In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- 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
- While the Virus Finds its Way Around the Drugs, Newer Treatments Hold Hope (May/June 2005)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- 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
- You Can't Be a People Unless You Have a History (September/October 2004)
A speech on queer history and the impact of AIDS on the gay/lesbian community, by lesbian activist and historian Maria Helena Dolan.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- 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
- 10 POZ Treatment Stories That Shook Our World (May 2004)
For its 10-year anniversary, POZ magazine lists its top 10 stories of the past decade.
In POZ
- Why a Red Ribbon Means AIDS (November 7, 2003)
A brief story of how the once-ubiquitous AIDS awareness ribbon came to be.
From BBC News
- The Agent Is Different, but the Anxiety Is Essentially the Same: Anthrax as AIDS (October 24-30, 2001)
In The Village Voice
- HIV Treatments: A History of Scientific Advance (July 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- The Last Word: The Denver Principles (July 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- NIH Launches Online AIDS Oral History Project (June 4, 2001)
From U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- A Look Back at the History of AIDS in the U.S. (June 2001)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Remarks of Michael Callen to the New York Congressional Delegation, 1983 (February/March 2001)
Recalling Michael Callen's watershed 1983 speech.
In GMHC Treatment Issues, from Gay Men's Health Crisis
- 2000: A Year of Endings and Beginnings (January/February 2001)
Developments in structured treatment interruptions, new treatments, clinical trial enrollment and treatment for Africa.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Milestones in the U.S. HIV Epidemic (PDF) (2001)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Diary of an HIV Doctor: Life During the Early Years of the Epidemic (November/December 2000)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Epidemics, Historical (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
- Parallel Epidemics: AIDS in the Developed and Developing Worlds (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
- The Encyclopedia of AIDS: : A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic (1998)
Select entries from each of the eight major topic sections of the Encyclopedia, including Basic Science and Epidemiology, Transmission and Prevention, Pathology and Treatment, Impacted Populations, Government and Activism, Policy and Law, Culture and Society and The Global Epidemic.
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS, from Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
- The Era of AIDS (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
- Elizabeth Glaser: Address at the 1992 Democratic National Convention (July 14, 1992)
Glazer, a widely known AIDS activist who went public about her status after she was infected with HIV during a blood transfusion while giving birth, died in 1994.
From American Rhetoric
2001: AIDS at Twenty
- "Extraordinary Journey": Scientists Appraise 20-Year War Against AIDS (July 15, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Living With AIDS -- 20 Years Later (November/December 2001)
In FDA Consumer, from U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Past_Present_and_Future@20 Years (August 2001)
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In Project Inform Perspective, from Project Inform
- Twenty Years of AIDS: An Exhibit of the Museum of the City of New York (August 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- AIDS Epidemic Now 20 Years Old, but Still in Early Stages (June 5, 2001)
From UNAIDS
- Background on the 20th Anniversary of AIDS (June 5, 2001)
From Office of Minority Health
- The New York Times Covers the Grim 20th Anniversary of AIDS (Summer 2001)
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In The New York Times
- AIDS at 20 (June 2001)
A great series of articles.
In Newsday
- AIDS Is Twenty -- It Is Time to Grow Up! (June 2001)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Twenty Years of AIDS (June 2001)
By Cleve Jones, founder of the AIDS Quilt Project.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Twenty Years of AIDS (Summer/Autumn 2001)
In Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- The AIDS Time Line: 20 Years, 20 Drugs, 20 Million Deaths (Spring 2001)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- Two Decades of AIDS: Scenes From an Epidemic (January 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Ronald Reagan's AIDS Legacy
- Ronald Reagan and AIDS (September/October 2004)
David Salyer recaps some of the highlights of the Gipper's life and presidency -- and laments how he never used his formidable political skills to do something about AIDS during the epidemic's first years.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Ronald Reagan Remembered: The First Public Discussion on AIDS (June 12, 2004)
A transcript of the first public mention of AIDS in the Reagan White House, at a press conference on October 15, 1982.
In AIDS Treatment News, from AIDS Treatment News
- Regarding the Death of Former President Ronald Reagan: A Letter to My Best Friend, Steven Powsner (June 6, 2004)
By Matt Foreman, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, on Reagan's inaction during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
From National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Rewriting the Script on Reagan: Why the President Ignored AIDS (November 14, 2003)
Dartmouth College instructor Michael Bronski offers a thoughtful analysis of Ronald Reagan's decision to pay so little attention to the growing AIDS epidemic during his tenure as president.
In Forward
First Reports of HIV in the U.S.
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