Federal funding has long played a crucial role in supporting research at Duke, a point underscored in a 1989 letter to the ...
First it was referred to as a "mysterious illness." Later it was called "gay cancer," "gay plague" and "GRID," an acronym for gay-related immune deficiency. Most egregiously, some called it "4H ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The AIDS Garden Chicago officially opened Thursday, spanning two and a half acres of the lakefront just south of Belmont. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. JB Pritzker were among those ...
Forty years later, I can still recall my visceral reaction to reading an article in the June 5, 1981, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), which opened with this sentence: “In the ...
Randy Shilts made America conscious of AIDS. He brought the disease to the attention of those who thought it was something ...
AIDS organizations worldwide are also alarmed over the administration's gutting of foreign aid initiatives for nations in ...
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Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The ...
On June 5, 1981, a curious report appeared in the Center for Disease Control’s weekly public health digest: Five young, gay men across Los Angeles had been diagnosed with an unusual lung infection ...