HIV

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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.