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. -Richard Keller

 

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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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.

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To us, this is a business.

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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.

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Students lead the discussion in the classes. . . . They take the discussions in directions you wouldn't expect.

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Those other diseases didn't simply go away. They tended to be buried in at-risk populations who were the poorest and most marginalized.

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