AIDS has always been a political disease and it was absolutely anathema to talk about AIDS during the Reagan administration. Applications to study AIDS in the early 80s were buried. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was barred from making public statements about AIDS until 1986.
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This quote is just one of 9 total Richard Keller quotes in our collection. Richard Keller is known for saying 'AIDS has always been a political disease and it was absolutely anathema to talk about AIDS during the Reagan administration. Applications to study AIDS in the early 80s were buried. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was barred from making public statements about AIDS until 1986.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The emergence of the disease in the 1980s kind of exploited this perfect ecology. You saw a classic environment for the spread of this disease.
The status quo. Both countries have grossly underestimated rates of infection, both have an increasing sex trade, and both have done nothing to stop the spread of AIDS. These are recipes for disaster.
This quote is just one of 9 total Richard Keller quotes in our collection. Richard Keller is known for saying 'AIDS has always been a political disease and it was absolutely anathema to talk about AIDS during the Reagan administration. Applications to study AIDS in the early 80s were buried. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was barred from making public statements about AIDS until 1986.' as well as some of the following quotes.