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A Century of HIV

… AIDS Day, should we wish the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) a happy birthday? We don’t know the exact day the virus … against disease. A sign from Zambia in 2005. The résumé of HIV is astounding. Its dominant form, HIV-1, has killed 35 million people since 1981 and it has …
a woman holding a needle with drugs in it

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

The Soviet Union tried to minimize news of the HIV/AIDS outbreak, blaming the victims.
… 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 … The Soviet Union tried to minimize news of the HIV/AIDS outbreak, blaming the victims. …
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 … 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 …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… have assumed many forms, from plague , influenza , and HIV to cholera, smallpox, polio, and measles. And now … the disease gained worldwide attention in the early 1980s, HIV has killed approximately 35 million people worldwide. At its outset, infection with HIV was nearly a death sentence for the patient. Since the …

South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid

… use of force by police since the Soweto Uprising in 1976. HIV The story of HIV/AIDS in South Africa has been complicated and often … was a prominent AIDS denialist who refuted any link between HIV and AIDS and went so far as to ban antiretroviral drugs …
The Education of Little Tree by Forest Carter book cover.

Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition

… take advantage of stereotypes about alcoholism, HIV-positive abused teenagers and American Indians. Navajo … middle-class author of gay S/M fiction. JT LeRoy, the HIV-positive transgendered, former drug-addicted truck stop …
Illustration of global public health by Giovanni Maki, 2004.

The WHO and International Public Health

… challenges to  human rights .” Thus, efforts to combat HIV/AIDS , a disease infamously stigmatized, fell well … that followed, the WHO lost its leading role in combating  HIV/AIDS to UNAIDS from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, …
A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.

Top Ten Origins: Flu

… 1918-1919 influenza pandemic and the late twentieth century HIV/AIDS global crisis. Influenza made its historical mark …
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 …