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Books~~ 25 YEARS IN A WORLD WITH HIV ~~**1981*** In its June 5 edition of "Morbidity and Mortality Weekley Report," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuses a report about five cases of Pneumocystis Carnaii Pneumonia in otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles. These became the world's first reported AIDS cases.* The New York Times details :Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals" on July 3; this is the first media story on AIDS.*****1982****** After categorizing the disease as an epedimic in 1981, the CDC drops the term (gay-related immune deficiency) for the more accurate (acquired immune deficiency syndrome).* The CDC links AIDS to blood and identifies risk groups: gay and bisexual men, injection-drug users, hemophiliacs, and Haitian natives.* Africa's first AIDS cases are reported.*****1983****** In March injection-drug users, gay men, amd others considered at high risk are urged not to donate blood, the first case of AIDS from a blood transfusion having been documented in December 1982.* Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute and Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute isolate the AIDS-causing retrovirus to be known as HIV and are named codiscoverers.*****1984****** Despite protests, San Francisco closes the city's gay bathhouses and sex clubs.*****1985****** The Food and Drug Administration approves an HIV antibody test.* Blood banks begin screening for HIV.* In April the first International AIDS Confrence is held in Atlanta.* The American Foundation for AIDS Research is founded, with Elizabeth Taylor as national chairwoman.* In July actor Rock Hudson announces he has AIDS, bringing mainstream public awareness to the disease; he dies on October 2.* The first AIDS TV movie, (An Early Frost), airs.* AIDS is now on every populated continent.*****1986****** In May, U.S. surgeon general C. Everett Koop issuses a report that shocks and inflames many by his calling for public-health measures and sex education to combat the growing epidemic.* The first panel of the Names Projest AIDS Memorial Quilt is created.* Supermodel Gia Carangi dies of AIDS-related complications; her life and death are chronicled in the HBO movie (Gia) in 1998.*****1987****** In March in New York City the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power holds its first protest.* The FDA approves AZT, the first anti-HIV medication.* In May, President Ronald Regan speaks to Americans for the first time about AIDS.* The United States bars HIV-infected immigrants and travlers from entering the country.* Randy Shilts publishes (And the Band Played On), his chronicle of the epidemic.* Spurred by Sen. Jesse Helms, Congress approves prohibiting tax dollars for AIDS education materials that "promote or encurage, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities."* The FDA adds label information to condoms saying they help prevent HIV infection.*****1988****** The CDC mails the brochure "Understanding AIDS" to all 107 million U.S. homes.* The first World AIDS Day is held.*****1989****** National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony Fauci proposes allowing HIV patients access experimental drugs ouside clinical trial settings.* The CDC issuses its first guidelines for prevention and treatment of Pneumocystic pneumonia.* Following two years of protests by activists, Burroughs Wellcome lowers the price of AZT.*****1990****** In April, 18-year-old hemophiliac Ryan White dies; he recieved an HIV-tainted blood transfusion five years earlier. The ostracism of White at his school and in his hometown became a symbol of the intolerance shown toward HIVers. In May, Congress authorizes funding for the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act.* Congress enacts the Americans With Disabilities Act.* AIDS activists boycott the Sixth International AIDS Confrence, held in San Francisco, to protest the U.S. ban on HIV-positive visitors.* Longtime Compasion, the first feature film to deal with the impact of AIDS on friends and family, is releases. Bruce Davison is nomitated for an Oscar for his performance.*****1991****** Spurred by the case of Kimberly Bergalis, who claimed she was infected by her dentist, the CDC recommends restrictions for some HIV-positive health care workers.* Pro basketball player Magic Johnson announces he is HIV-positive.*****1992****** AIDS becomes the top killer of American men ages 25 to 44.* Mary Fisher addresses the Republican National Convention as an HIVer.* In December The CDC adopts a new set of AIDS-defining conditions after activists charge that the agency is ignoring symptoms specific to injection-drug users and women. This causes a surge in the number of new AIDS cases that will be reported in 1993.*****1993****** The FDA approves the female condom.* Four French officials are jailed for allowing HIV-tainted blood into France's blood banks.* The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Angels in America, a play by Tony Kushner about the AIDS pandemic.* The film Philadelphia, which focuses on an HIV-positive lawyer facing workplace discrimination, is releases. Tom Hanks wins the Best Actor for his performance.*****1994****** AIDS becomes the leading cause of death among all Americans ages 25 to 44.* An add for fashion chain Benetton shows an image of former president Ronald Regan with Kaposi's Sarcoma lesions on his face.* The U.S. Public Health Service recommendes the use of AZT to help reduce the changes of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.* Pedro Zamora, a 22-year-old HIVer, appears on the MTV program (The Real World.)*****1995****** In Feruary champion diver Greg Louganis tells Barbara Walters in a television interview that he has AIDS and was HIV-positive during his diving accident at the 1988 Olympics.* In December the FDA approves saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor. The era of combination therapy begins.*****1996****** In July at the 11th International AIDS Confrence, reports that combination therapy is helping extremeli ill patients regain their health lead to hopes about the effectiveness of what become dubbed "HIV cocktails."* The FDA approves the first viral load test.* Voters in California and Arizona pass medicinal marijuana laws to allow access to patients who need the drug to combat nausea and overcome wasting syndrome.* Jonathan Larson's AIDS-themed musical, (Rent), wins the Pulitzer Prize; the play also recieves four Tony Awards.* AIDS researcher David Ho is named Time magizine's Man of the Year.*****1997****** In February a report states that deaths from AIDS-related complications fell 13% in the first six months of 1996, This first significant drop in AIDS deaths is attributed to protease inhibitors and combination therapy.* Combivir, the first multidrug pill, is approved.* The first reports of antiretroviral side effects like "buffalo hump," "Crix belly," and "protease paunch" are reported.*****1998****** Although the Department od Health and Human Services determines the needle-exchange programs are effective and don;t encourage illegal drug use, President Clinton does not lift the ban on using federal funds for them.* African-American leaders declare and AIDS-related state of emergency in black communities and launch the Minority AIDS Initiative.* In June the U.S. Supreme Court rules that asymptomatic HIVers are protected under the Americans With Disabilities Act.* Congress authorizes payments to hemophiliacs infected through unscreened U.S. blood products between 1982 and 1987.* A report says U.S. AIDS deaths were halved in 1997, down to their lowest levels in a decade. AIDS falls out of the top 10 causes of death among Americans.* David Ho presents evidence at the Fifth Confrence on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections that HIV most likely first infected humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. Eventual research verifies that the first known AIDS death when HIV-1 is found in the blood samples of an African man who died in 1959, The first U.S. case is traced to a teen prostitute with Kaposi's sarcoma who died in 1969.*****1999****** Research concludes HIV was spread to humans by a mutated virus that has lived in chimpanzees in regins of Africa for possibly hundreds of thousands of years.* The World Health Organization announces that AIDS is the most deadly infectious disease-overtaking tuberculosis-and is the fourth leading cause of deaths worldwide.* Research teams working independently announces they have discovered cases of newly infected individuals in the United States and Europe who have highly multidrug-resistant forms of the virus.*****2000****** The CDC reports that Africian-American and Latino men who have sex with men have higher HIV infection rates than white men in the same transmission category.* The U.N. Security Council declares AIDS a global security threat.* The 13th International AIDS Confrence is held in Durban, South Africa-the first time the gathering is held in a develpoing nation.*****2001****** The World Trade Organization agrees to allow development countries to make or import generic meds in public-health crises.*****2002****** AIDS becomes the leading cause of death globally among people ages 15 to 59.* Women now account for about half of all HIV-positive adults worldwide.*****2003****** President George W. Bush announces the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to fight HIV overseas.* South Africa, ahich has the highest number of HIVers in the world, announces plans to create an antiretroviral treatment program.*****2004****** Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Mayers Squibb announces a collaboration to combine Sustiva, Emtriva, and Viread into a once-daily, onr-pill regimen. The first two attempts fail. but a sucess, Atripla, is announced in 2006.* Andy Bell, lead singer of the pop group Erasure, announces he is HIV-positive.*****2005****** Roche announces it will stop making Hivid and Fortavase due to low demand; these are the first anti-HIV meds decommissioned.* The World Health Organization announces that its "3x5" initiative-begun in 2003 to get 3 million HIV-positive people in poor nations an antiretroviral theropy by the end of 2005-will not reach its target.*****2006****** The U.S. House's reathorization of the Ryan White Act would reallocate funding so that cities hardest-hit by AIDS, such as San Francisco and Washington, D.C., would have ominous funding shortfalls for public HIV resources. Eventually, though, Senate lets the bill die.
