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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• 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

• Oscar-Nominated Doc 'How to Survive a Plague' to Become TV Mini Series

  The Oscar-nominated documentary feature How to Survive a Plague is getting a miniseries treatment. Mere days after the Academy Awards, ABC Studios has bought rights to David France’s film, which follows an improbable group of young people -- many of them HIV-positive young men -- with an eye toward a potential dramatic miniseries.

  04 March 2013 | The Hollywood Reporter

• CROI at 20 - a look back

  CROI, which started as a small national conference held in a hotel in Washington DC, will hold its 20th meeting this year. In this table, I’ve highlighted what I think has been the major news from each year’s conference. Enjoy the trip down memory lane!

  02 March 2013 | Journal Watch HIV/AIDS Clinical Care

• HIV and Gay Media: The Vanishing Virus

  HIV/AIDS has largely moved off the front page and out of public consciousness. What, then, is the responsibility of LGBT media in this climate of rising infection rates and a bored readership? Are they simply reflecting the community’s waning interest, or do they have a responsibility to keep HIV in the headlines, to serve as advocates for better public awareness?

  28 February 2013 | My Fabulous Disease (blog)

• The Plague Years, in Film and Memory

  What it's like when the worst years of your life get rolled up into an Oscar-nominated documentary.

  26 February 2013 | The Atlantic

• Obituary: C. Everett Koop, MD, 96, Iconic Surgeon General

  C. Everett Koop, MD, Ronald Reagan's iconic surgeon general who waged a war against smoking, defended disabled newborns' right to life, and championed knowledge over prejudice to educate the nation about AIDS, is dead at age 96.

  26 February 2013 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

• Saving Safe Sex: An Interview With Richard Berkowitz

  The writer of the first safer sex manifesto for gay men talks about PrEP, gay culture and the profile documentary Sex Positive.

  19 February 2013 | Huffington Post (blog)

• What George W. Bush Did Right

  The 43rd president of the United States did a great thing for humankind - but most Americans have no idea.

  15 February 2013 | Foreign Policy `Democracy Lab` blog

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