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An AIDS testing site in Moscow, 1987.

The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS

… On the surface, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 seem as dissimilar as two viruses … ways in which the Soviet Union reacted to the arrival of HIV/AIDS, and how it spread in the first years of the … pandemic. In particular, the Soviet Union’s approach to HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s—how officials initially blamed …
An HIV AIDS patient in Mozambique

What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care

HIV and COVID-19 have both laid bare that stark racial disparities exist in population health and in access to quality medical care in the US.
… Comparing COVID-19 to HIV is, in many ways, like comparing apples to oranges: HIV is transmitted primarily through sexual contact or … afflicting the social worlds in which we live. For example, HIV and COVID-19 have both laid bare that stark racial …
sign reading You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS in Zambia

HIV- Past and Present

How did the action or inaction of the United States government impact the HIV epidemic during the 1980s to present? How does this impact differ by demographic?
Grade Level
8
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
… or inaction of the United States government impact the HIV epidemic during the 1980s to present? How does this … by demographic? … Brianne Makoski … US History since 1877 … HIV- Past and Present …
Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.

Africa's Medical History Revealed

Review of Health, Healing and Illness in African History, by Rebekah Lee (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021)
… sickness, the Spanish Influenza , cholera , bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS , syphilis, leprosy, ebola as well as occupational … Healers in Ghana in 1963. During the battle against HIV/AIDS traditional healers were given fundamental roles to … of the book examines a set of four disease case studies: HIV/AIDS, mental illness, tropical diseases and occupational …
Marchers for LGBTQ rights

The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights

… it was actually about lived experience of people who were HIV positive, but then you get something like As Is, which … struggles of those years and we saw the first community archives organized during those years and what people would do …