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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.

Published
21 May 2013
From
APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)
The search for a cure
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

Published
20 May 2013
From
Financial Times
History of HIV and AIDS
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.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Huffington Post
Ageing and HIV
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.

Published
10 May 2013
From
Huffington Post
History of HIV and AIDS
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.

Published
22 April 2013
From
Philly.com
History of HIV and AIDS
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.

Published
02 April 2013
From
The Advocate
HIV prevention policy
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.

Published
28 March 2013
From
BMJ Group blogs
History of HIV and AIDS
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.

Published
15 March 2013
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
History of HIV and AIDS
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.

Published
14 March 2013
From
The Fix
History of HIV and AIDS
At home: Sir Nick Partridge

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

Published
10 March 2013
From
Financial Times
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