History of HIV and AIDS

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  Back to the future

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

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• 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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• Cuba’s AIDS Sanitariums: Fortresses Against a Viral Foe

  The network of sanitariums grew to 14. They were harshly criticized — Dr. Jonathan Mann, the first AIDS director at the World Health Organization, called them “pretty prisons” — but they had a huge damping effect on the early epidemic.

  08 May 2012 | New York Times

• Cuba: A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

  Whatever debate may linger about the government’s harsh early tactics — until 1993, everyone who tested positive for H.I.V. was forced into quarantine — there is no question that they succeeded. Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate is 0.1 percent, on par with Finland, Singapore and Kazakhstan.

  08 May 2012 | New York Times

• HIV/AIDS: Voices From Cuba

  Profiles of a number of Cubans living with HIV

  08 May 2012 | New York Times

• New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt to Become National Treasure

  On June 29, the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt will be ceremonially turned over to Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand's national museum, as a taonga—a cultural treasure—Yahoo! News reports.

  27 April 2012 | Poz magazine news

• How Has Activism Changed Since the Early Years of ACT UP?

  We asked community members -- some of them past members of ACT UP themselves -- how they believe activism has changed since ACT UP first stormed onto the world stage.

  26 April 2012 | The Body

• TAG at 20: Early Campaigns

  On January 22, 2012, the Treatment Action Group marked its twentieth anniversary. Over the past two decades, we have helped to accelerate a historically unprecedented therapeutic revolution: the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 1995–96, followed by its rollout to nearly seven million people worldwide.

  24 April 2012 | TAG

• ACLU takes on the tough cases, including HIV/AIDS

  The longstanding nonprofit established civil-rights protections with landmark cases, and in 1984, helped draft the nation's first law to expressly protect the rights of HIV-positive individuals. 

  04 April 2012 | Windy City Times

• Larry Kramer: Happy Birthday, ACT UP, Wherever You Are

  It's difficult to be grateful when the AIDS plague is worse than ever all over the world and the two organizations I helped found to stop it are, if not no more, then in such pathetic shape as to almost be no more.

  28 March 2012 | Huffington Post

• Pictures From a Battlefield - the men and women who started ACT UP

  Twenty-five years ago, a group of young men and women started an organization called ACT UP to fight an enemy that, at the time, seemed almost unbeatable.

  27 March 2012 | New York

• ACT UP Commemorates 25th Anniversary

  Saturday, March 24, marks 25 years since the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) held its first action. 

  23 March 2012 | Poz magazine news

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