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The Aids Epidemic

By h0w06us

  • First Report of Aids

    First Report of Aids
    UCLA’s Michael Gottlieb, MD, and others author the first report identifying the appearance of diseases that would later become known as AIDS.
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    Aids Epidemic

    A disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.

  • First Task Force

    First Task Force
    the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention forms a Task Force on Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections.

  • First Aids Clinic

    First Aids Clinic
    UCSF faculty physicians open the country’s first outpatient AIDS clinic, Ward 86 in January, and inpatient Ward 5B in July, at SFGH.

  • Ryan White

    Ryan White
    13-year-old hemophiliac from Indiana, becomes infected with HIV from a contaminated blood treatment.

  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation

    San Francisco AIDS Foundation
    San Francisco AIDS Foundation organizes the San Francisco AIDS Walk to raise funds for patient care, research and education. UCSF participates in the walk from the start.

  • Understanding Aids

    Understanding Aids
    A brochure titled “Understanding AIDS” is mailed to every household in the U.S.

  • World Aids Day

    World Aids Day
    WHO declares first World AIDS Day on December 1, which continues today.

  • AZT

    AZT
    UCSF’s Paul Volberding, MD, finds that HIV-infected patients without symptoms of AIDS could have those symptoms delayed if they took the drug AZT.

  • AIDS Activist

    AIDS Activist
    AIDS activists come out to protest about AIDS drugs, including demonstrating on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

  • Ryan White Dies

    Ryan White Dies
    Ryan White dies of AIDS at age 18 – a month before his high school graduation.

  • Freddie Mercury Dies of AIDS

    Freddie Mercury Dies of AIDS
    Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock band Queen, dies of AIDS.

  • Leading Cause of Death in America

    Leading Cause of Death in America
    AIDS becomes leading cause of death for all Americans ages 25 to 44.

  • Jeff Getty

    Jeff Getty
    receives the first bone-marrow transplant from baboon cells that were transplanted with the hope that the primate’s natural AIDS resistance would boost his immune system.

  • Death toll

    Death toll
    CDC reports that more than 562,000 people have died of AIDS in the U.S. since 1981.

  • 40 Years of AIDS

    40 Years of AIDS
    UCSF commemorates 40 years of AIDS with a special town hall on June 4.