History of HIV and AIDS

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  Will the world pay up to end HIV? Global AIDS funding

  We are at a critical point in the history of the HIV epidemic. We potentially have the tools to end it but, asks guest writer Laura...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Back to the future

  Edwin J Bernard looks back over five years as editor of this newsletter ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

History of HIV and AIDS news from aidsmap

• Was higher viral load responsible for the African HIV epidemic?

  Researchers from Cornell University in New York have found that the average HIV viral load of people not taking antiretroviral medication (ART) in Africa, and especially in southern and eastern Africa, is higher than the viral loads of untreated ...

  12 February 2013 | Gus Cairns

• Young people know less about HIV and are less trustful of condoms, French survey finds

  The first survey for six years of attitudes to HIV and sexual risk behaviour among the general public in France has found that young people are less frightened of AIDS than they used to be, are more likely to ...

  10 January 2013 | Gus Cairns

• A new patient zero? Researchers may have spotted animal-to-human immunodeficiency virus transfer

  A group of scientists working in Ivory Coast may have discovered a case of infection of a human with a novel variety of an animal immunodeficiency virus, in circumstances that suggest it was a direct infection from an animal. ...

  07 March 2012 | Gus Cairns

• 30 years of AIDS: remembering how it began - from those who were there

  Sunday June 5 sees the 30th anniversary of the first reports of the disease that later came to be known as AIDS. At the time no one could have anticipated the scale of the epidemic that was about to ...

  03 June 2011 | Keith Alcorn

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• Honouring Shivananda Duncan George Khan OBE

  APCOM, one on the many organisations he helped to found, honours pioneering HIV and MSM activist Shivananda Khan, who died on 20 May.

  21 May 2013 | APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)

• Françoise Barré-Sinoussi: the HIV hunter

  Thirty years ago, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi found an unidentified virus in a patient with Aids – work which won her a Nobel Prize. She talks about the continuing battle with the disease and her hopes of one day seeing a cure

  20 May 2013 | Financial Times

• WATCH: Groundbreaking New Film Tackles HIV/AIDS In The World Of Dance

  Test, a film set in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1985, focuses on a prestigious dance company dealing with the spread of HIV and its effects on the lives of its performers.

  17 May 2013 | Huffington Post

• Michelangelo Signorile: The First AIDS Generation: Grappling With Why We're Alive and What It Means

  I was escaping the epidemic by immersing myself in the politics and urgency of it, which seems paradoxical but really does make a lot of sense .I gave myself a special dispensation on grief and heartbreak. There was no time for grief, especially when anger and indignation was so much more empowering. Of course, what I'm painfully learning 25 years later is that you can put grief off, but you can't ever escape it.

  10 May 2013 | Huffington Post

• AIDS 'Patient Zero' was a publicity strategy, scholar writes

  The 1987 New York Post headline - THE MAN WHO GAVE US AIDS - was arguably one of the most influential of all time. "Patient Zero" - a promiscuous gay Canadian flight attendant - had spread AIDS from coast to coast. The story sparked sensational media coverage, drove a book onto the best-seller lists, pushed the "gay disease" onto mainstream America's radar screen, and helped jump-start an activist movement. It was also wrong.

  22 April 2013 | Philly.com

• The Crime of Being Positive: the development of HIV laws in the 1980s

  In the 1980s corporations, conservatives, and fear turned HIV-positive people into outlaws.

  02 April 2013 | The Advocate

• Was the “sexual revolution” triggered by the decline of syphilis?

  The year 1939 saw total US syphilis deaths at 15 per 100,000 and syphilis deaths of black males at 72.5 per 100,000: this is a death rate comparable to that for HIV/AIDS at the height of the epidemic in 1995 when total deaths and deaths of black males stood, respectively, at 16.2 and 80.2 per 100,000. Subsequently, in the late 40s and early 50s, incidence and mortality from syphilis were to fall precipitously – thanks to penicillin.

  28 March 2013 | BMJ Group blogs

• NEW YORK: Historical Society Exhibition to Explore the Early Days of AIDS

  This summer, the New York Historical Society will mount an exhibition titled “AIDS in New York: The First Five Years,” which will focus on the early years of AIDS in New York City. Comprised of diaries, ephemera such as clinician’s notes and photographs, and both audio and video clips, the exhibition will examine the impact of the disease from the first days of rumors of a “gay plague” in 1981 through 1986.

  15 March 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network

• The Battle for Needle Exchange, as AIDS Raged

  In the '80s, HIV was killing tens of thousands of heroin addicts. Yet swapping clean needles for dirty ones remained illegal—until a ragtag group of AIDS activists put their bodies on the line.

  14 March 2013 | The Fix

• At home: Sir Nick Partridge

  The head of the Terrence Higgins Trust talks about his ‘intense’ role and attitudes towards HIV and Aids.

  10 March 2013 | Financial Times

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