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Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic |
Raymond A. Smith
Routledge
Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic
Suburban and Rural Populations
ARI Id

1666389136187_15658740

Access

Open/Free Access

Pages

756-761

DOI

10.4324/9780203305492-136

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THE AIDS EPIDEMIC: AN OVERVIEW
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ACT UP
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building in 1988. The group was protesting clinical trials of the antiviral drug azidothymidine (AZT) in which some participants were being given placebos rather than the drug itself. Playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer launched ACT UP with an impassioned call to action in March 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center of New York. This image is taken from the only set of photos taken during Kramer’s speech.
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blood-transfusion recipients, and spouses of injecting drug users but never once mentioning gay men.
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Adolescent AIDS activist Josh Lunior (center), an HIV-positive teenager with hemophilia, leads a World AIDS Day discussion with other teenagers at a high school in Poughkeepsie, New York. Peer-led interventions have been demonstrated to be one of the most effective means of educating adolescents about HIV/AIDS.
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In Africa, AIDS treatment is often a combination of Western and traditional medicine. This Ugandan doctor serves as both the local physician and the herbalist.
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Women have been heavily impacted by AIDS throughout Africa. For this woman with AIDS in Kenya (right), poverty makes access to adequate health care all but impossible and day-to-day survival difficult.
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Africa, Southern
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ranging AIDS awareness campaign. One Zimbabwean AIDS outreach poster (top) reminds couples to avoid unprotected sex, while another (bottom) seeks to empower girls to resist sex.
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HIV/AIDS have had to contend not only with the disease but also with racism in the gay community and homophobia in the black community.
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AIDS, Case Definition of
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AIDS, Pathogenesis of
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AIDS-Related Complex (ARC)
T-shirts worn by protesters at the Federal Office Building in San
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Anal Intercourse
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Defendant Michael Hardwick being arrested in 1987 at a protest in front of the U. S. Supreme Court. The previous year, the Court had set back the gay rights movement by upholding the constitutionality of a Georgia anti-sodomy law in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick. The association between homosexual anal intercourse and AIDS is widely considered to have been an important factor in the Court’s unwillingness to extend the
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constitutional right of privacy to consensual homosexual sex.
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first (and most controversial} antiviral medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use by people with AIDS. Antiviral drugs can be difficult for patients to take because of their enormous expense, powerful side effects, demanding scheduling requirements, and large dosages.
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In part because AIDS has had a stigmatizing association with male homosexuality, female celebrities have been especially prominent in support of AIDS-related causes. Clockwise from top are actresses Susan Sarandon, reading names from the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington D. C. , in 1988; Whoopi Goldberg at the lesbian and gay March on Washington in 1987; and Elizabeth Taylor meeting members of the National Association
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of People with AIDS (NAPWA) in the U. S. Capitol Building in 1987.
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A child with HIV in the northern Indian city of Delhi receives help in a care facility for orphans whose parents have died of AIDS. Deeply impoverished and with about one-fifth of the world’s population, India is expected to have the largest AIDS epidemic of any country in the early 2000s.
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