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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/15/2021
Comparing Unvaccinated Kyrie Irving to HIV-Positive Magic Johnson? Not So Fast
"Shut up and dribble" falls by the wayside when right-wing media figures can make a convenient ally out of a prominent athlete.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis
Washington journalist Karen Tumulty writes that Nancy Reagan worked against the demands of social conservatives to ask her husband's administration to pay attention to the AIDS crisis, but her efforts weren't enough.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/17/2021
The Original Shock of AIDS in “It’s a Sin”
The British show "It's a Sin" reconstructs the emergence of AIDS in London through the story of a group of flatmates working to reconcile fear and affirmation.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/7/2021
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Reminds Us of the Deep Costs of Inequality
by Dan Royles
"This history shows us that biomedical interventions such as antiretrovirals to treat HIV or the vaccine against the coronavirus yield some progress in the fight against epidemic disease, but do little to alter the underlying inequities that make some communities more vulnerable to illness in the first place."
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SOURCE: Retro Report
7/2/2020
What Dr. Fauci and Others Learned About Battling Covid-19 from the Fight Against AIDS (Video)
The AIDS pandemic was marked by a slow response and a lack of clear public health messages and testing. Despite those lessons, we were still unprepared for Covid-19.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/27/2020
Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84
Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of “murder” and “genocide” recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency.
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5/3/2020
Trump’s Attacks on the WHO Evoke Nostalgia for George W. Bush
by Jeffrey J. Matthews
George W. Bush's promotion of cooperative international health initiaitves to fight HIV-AIDS is a bright spot in his presidential legacy.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/22/2020
The Epidemics America Got Wrong
by Jim Downs
Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country, argues history professor Jim Downs.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/12/2020
We Can’t Forget Women as We Tell The Story of COVID-19
by Jennifer Brier
Women who have been medical (and political) subjects of HIV/AIDS also have much to teach us during our current pandemic.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/16/2020
Coronavirus: Three Lessons from the AIDS Crisis
by Laurie Marhoefer
The U.S. made serious mistakes when the HIV virus and AIDS emerged. Those errors cost many lives. But our nation learned a few things, too.
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7/21/19
The Beginning of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic – and One Doctor's Search for a Cure
by Seema Yasmin
It was unparalleled, this confluence of public health, politics, clinical medicine, and public anxiety. The unknown disease was spreading faster than imagined. Humanity had never seen anything like it.
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