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3rd June 2011

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[The picture is a rectangle of white cloth with a purple border. Letters printed on it say, “Wash. D.C. Aug. 2, 1983. ‘I came here today to ask that this nation with all its resources and compassion not let my epitaph read, He died of red tape.’” A purple signature at the bottom reads “Roger Gail Lyon”.] A square from the AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorating Roger Lyon. The quotation is from his testimony before Congress in 1983, arguing for increased funding for AIDS research and treatment; he died less than a year later, of complications from AIDS. This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first U.S. reports of what’s now known as HIV/AIDS. Of course, HIV/AIDS was around much earlier than 1981: the first fully documented case dates to 1959, and it’s thought that the virus transferred to humans in Africa around the turn of the 20th century. But 1981 was when it began to enter public consciousness in the West. It took four years for Ronald Reagan to publicly acknowledge its existence, four years for a blood test to be developed, and six years for the first treatment to appear — by which time more than 13,000 people in the U.S. had already died. The Smithsonian is opening an exhibit called HIV and AIDS: 30 Years Ago, and the NIH has an oral history site called In Their Own Words, with stories from researchers working on AIDS in the earliest days of the U.S. epidemic. (via Box Turtle Bulletin)

[The picture is a rectangle of white cloth with a purple border. Letters printed on it say, “Wash. D.C. Aug. 2, 1983. ‘I came here today to ask that this nation with all its resources and compassion not let my epitaph read, He died of red tape.’” A purple signature at the bottom reads “Roger Gail Lyon”.]

A square from the AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorating Roger Lyon. The quotation is from his testimony before Congress in 1983, arguing for increased funding for AIDS research and treatment; he died less than a year later, of complications from AIDS.

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first U.S. reports of what’s now known as HIV/AIDS. Of course, HIV/AIDS was around much earlier than 1981: the first fully documented case dates to 1959, and it’s thought that the virus transferred to humans in Africa around the turn of the 20th century. But 1981 was when it began to enter public consciousness in the West. It took four years for Ronald Reagan to publicly acknowledge its existence, four years for a blood test to be developed, and six years for the first treatment to appear — by which time more than 13,000 people in the U.S. had already died.

The Smithsonian is opening an exhibit called HIV and AIDS: 30 Years Ago, and the NIH has an oral history site called In Their Own Words, with stories from researchers working on AIDS in the earliest days of the U.S. epidemic.

(via Box Turtle Bulletin)

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