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One of the big factors early on is that no one wanted to be associated with AIDS due to the fact that it was considered a homosexual man’s disease. There was a lot of fear, denial and anger surrounding this disease. In 1981at the CDC Dr. Guinan asks that a report about an epidemic with gay men had broken out and he wanted it published in the medical journal. The fear of the word “homosexual” was marked off and not used for that article. It took a long time for the realization that this disease could affect everyone from homosexual males, IV drug users, blood transfusion patients, women and even babies. Even though it was initially considered the disease came from gay men and their sexual practices it crossed all borders as time went on. Still today there is some prejudice regarding AIDS. (Spelling, Vincent &

Buckley, Jr., William F. "Crucial Steps in Combating the Aids Epidemic; Identify All the Carriers." New York Times: 18 March 1986.

But there were also the heroes -- the physicians who devoted their days and nights to treating their patients, gay men like Larry Kramer who refused to let the gay community sweep the problem under the rug, Rock Hudson, whose up-front honesty and admission of his illness shocked the American public and helped to bring AIDS out of the

When people think of the 1980’s the first thoughts that many have in mind is that of music, movies, and technology that has helped shaped the present. Unfortunately, just like this longing for the 1980’s as something remarkable is limited to those that did not have to struggle through the AIDS epidemic or those that did not had to watch their friends, family, or loved ones die. The LGBTQ+ community faced struggles once it became apparent that AIDS was killing people, which runs counter to the ideology that the 1980's were full of nostalgia.

According to a report published in the February 1998 edition of “Nature”, scientists identified what they believe is the earliest case of AIDs in a man from the Congo in 1959. (Lerner and Hombs 39) By the end of the year 1980, 80 men would have been diagnosed with at least of the opportunistic infections that are a characteristic of AIDs. (Lerner and Hombs 40) AIDs cases in the 1980s increased dramatically not only around the world but in the United States, primarily in larger cities like Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. The numbers of AIDs diagnoses and deaths spiraled out of control throughout the 1980s and towards the end of 1989 there were 117,500 cases of AIDS reported and 89,000 related deaths.(Lerner and Hombs 54) In the

In 1920 a disease would enter the world in change lives of many people around the world. The most powerful scientists and researchers tired to find answers regarding the strange disease but unfortunately they will spend years with unanswered questions. In this research paper, I decided to look back and discuss evidence about the origin of HIV, and find out where, how, and when the disease first began to cause illness in humans. However, this paper will mainly focus on how HIV impacts the community worldwide.

In 1981 an epidemic occurred that affected mostly homosexual men. The first few cases came in with a rare type of pneumonia. The virus would be known as HIV and the disease would be later called AIDS. In the same year Elizabeth Glaser contracted the virus through a blood transfusion. She took a stand for the people who lived with AIDS by creating a research foundation, speaking out in interviews and wanting everyone to have health care she was not only able to bring awareness to the disease her foundation has helped millions of mothers and children receive treatment for HIV and AIDS.

Before beginning to analyze the accuracy of the portrayal of the AIDS epidemic throughout Angels in America, the virus must first be looked at in its actual historical context. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a collection of symptoms and complications due to a deficient immune system that is the result of HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The AIDS epidemic made its presence in the United States known on June 5, 1981 when five men were diagnosed with a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia, amongst other infections. The previously healthy, gay men were on the decline due to a compromised immune system. These cases were

The origin of AIDS can be traced back to 1959 in Zaire, but it wasn’t until the 1980s where AIDS was discovered that it can be transmitted by bodily fluids and that HIV operates by destroying the T-4 cell, which makes people vulnerable to infections. This was an important as it showed retroviruses such as HIV can cause other diseases.

They believe that the first carrier was a man named Gaetan Dugas. He was a homosexual man from Europe who spread the disease by frequenting gay bathhouses throughout the world. Dugas was a flight attendant who traveled around the world and was capable of thereby spreading the virus to other homosexual men. In a recent study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States by Michael Worobey and Dr. Arthur Pitchenik it has been claimed that the modern strains of HIV/AIDS in the United States moved from Africa to Hait. It is in Haiti where it is believed to have been brought over by a single immigrant in 1969. In 1969 the first death from a virus with HIV/AIDS symptoms, Robert Rayford in St. Louis was identified. Although he is not believed to have been "patient zero", it is believed that he was the first person to have died from HIV/AIDS in the United

The unusual development of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the 1980s concentrated an excessive amount of public eye, research studies, and program funding on the virus and its epidemic. The physicians in Los Angles, San Francisco, and New York City were one of the first physicians to see cases of HIV/AIDS. Physicians examined young male patients that had one or more of the following symptoms: serious pneumonia produced by Pneumocystis jirovecii, an uncommon cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma, rapid weight loss, swollen lymph nodes, and loss of immune function. Finally, virologists at the Pasteur Institute in France discovered HIV. The following symptoms were a contagious infectious disease, which was later called AIDS (Cowan, 2015, p. 617).

Introduction - a bit about the history of the discovery of the virus, then how it came to be known as aids, where the virus is thought to come from, include transmission

Dr. Peter H. Duesberg, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, published a book titled Inventing the Aids Virus, which paints a somewhat cynical picture of the way in which scientists arrived at HIV and AIDS as potential future epidemics. In this book Duesberg denies that HIV causes AIDS. The professor explains that after failing to find a cure for hepatitis or cancer, or Legionnaire's Disease, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) needed a "war to revitalize themselves" (Duesberg, 1998, p. 146). The CDC, in particular, needed "…a major epidemic to justify its existence," Duesberg quotes from a Red Cross executive; and the AIDS epidemic "became their salvation," he wrote (146).

The first published article related to AIDS was in 1981 by Michael Gottlieb concerning a random increase in pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) (7). Soon after another article reporting sudden outbreaks of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) appeared (7). Noticed and named by the CDC, the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is used in 1982 to describe the new disease related to sudden outbreaks (7). The causation of AIDS in 1982 was not known until the discovery of HIV on April 23, 1984 by Pasteur and Dr. Robert Gallo (7). In 1985 scientist realized HIV/AIDS can be spread through blood and bodily fluids (8). In 1985 testing first became available focusing on protecting the blood supply involving blood transfusions (8). In 1987 the USPHS issued guidelines making HIV testing a priority regarding prevention of individuals that have high risk behaviors (8). In 1993 the CDC recommended voluntary HIV counseling and testing to outpatients in acute care hospital settings (8). In 2003 the CDC introduced the initiative advancing HIV prevention to have new strategies concerning the AIDS epidemic (8). In 2004 the CDC arranged a meeting with a mix of professional health officials to best expand HIV testing and education for everyone (8). Since the discovery no

In the lates 1970s, early 1980s, doctors from New York and San Francisco started to treat an increasing number of male patients affected from mysterious infections. Most of these patients deteriorated at a rate never seen before, dying without responding satisfactorily to any know treatment. In 1982, the CDC uses the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to circumscribe the new and deadly disease. Soon, those four capital letters flooded the American media, invoking fear in many, and compassion in those whom where suffering the lost of a close friend or family member. By the 1990s, without a cure, and effective symptomatic treatment, or other prevention method besides condoms, AIDS became the number one cause of death among