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TAKING RISKS
With Fears Fading, More Gays Spurn Old Preventive Message

August 19, 2001 -- Public health officials are facing a perplexing challenge in fighting AIDS: with more treatments available to keep the disease at bay, people at risk are taking more chances.

THE DOCTOR'S WORLD
Recollections on the Age of AIDS

July 3, 2001 -- A doctor, who treated some of the earliest patients with H.I.V. in New York 20 years ago, looks back on the nascent stages of the AIDS epidemic and discusses what steps could have been taken to stop the outbreak.

IN THE SOUTH
AIDS Epidemic Takes Toll on Black Women

July 3, 2001 -- The AIDS epidemic has taken firm root among women across the rural South, where messages about prevention and protection are often overtaken by the daily struggle to get by.

WEBCAST
U.N. Special Session on HIV/AIDS

June 25, 2001 -- The United Nations General Assembly will convene for a 3-day special session to address the significant increase in HIV/AIDS cases worldwide.

PATIENT CARE
Price of Success in AIDS Treatment

June 7, 2001 -- The 20-year onslaught of AIDS has radically changed the economics of patient care, and its effects are still being felt throughout the health care system.

THE VACCINE SEARCH
Quest for AIDS Vaccine Rises From Ashes of Dashed Hopes

June 5, 2001 -- While there is still no AIDS vaccine and none is even close, research continues into a preventative that will at least provide some protection against H.I.V.

THE CRAFTY OPPONENT
On Research Frontier, Basic Questions

June 5, 2001 -- Experts say no virus, even polio, has been more thoroughly studied than H.I.V. But the more scientists learn about AIDS, the more they find themselves confronting a mystery.

PUBLIC POLICY
Advocates for Patients Barged In, and the Federal Government Changed

June 5, 2001 -- The AIDS epidemic has profoundly altered the way government responds to health emergencies, galvanizing medical research, speeding the review of new drugs.

VOICES OF AN EPIDEMIC
One Disease, Lived Six Different Ways

June 5, 2001 -- AIDS has struck a dizzying variety of Americans. Some 800,000 to 900,000 people of all ages, ethnicities and sexual orientations are living with the virus.
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A LONG, SLOW CLIMB
A Veteran's Long Journey on the Front Line of AIDS

June 5, 2001 -- Take it from one who knows: there is no surer way to stop a party conversation cold than to tell a group of friendly strangers that you have spent a good fraction of the last 20 years taking care of people with AIDS.

ALSO FROM JUNE 5, 2001
When Death Sentences Are Reprieved
Voices From the Front Lines of Medicine
Volunteers Submit to Science
Q&A: AIDS in Africa
'A Previously Healthy 33-Year-Old Man': the Five Original Case Studies

A CITY TRANSFORMED
AIDS Altered the Fabric of New York in Ways Subtle and Vast

June 4, 2001 -- New York City after AIDS is somewhat like America after World War II — a place physically unscathed yet socially transformed.

FACES OF AN EPIDEMIC
In AIDS War, New Weapons and New Victims

June 3, 2001 -- On Tuesday, it will be 20 years since the C.D.C. reported cases of a new disease, now known as AIDS, in gay men. Today, AIDS is increasingly an epidemic of minorities.


JUNE 5, 1981
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's newsletter Morbidity and Mortality Weekly (MMWR) published its first reference to five cases of an unusual pneumonia in Los Angeles.
Excerpts from the original report.
The original report in full. (PDF Format)

1981
Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals

Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of cancer. Eight of the victims died less than 24 months after the diagnosis was made.

1981
2 Fatal Diseases Focus of Inquiry
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two rare diseases have struck more than 100 homosexual men in the United States in recent months, killing almost half of them, and a medical study group has been formed to find out why, the national Centers for Disease Control said.


   

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
December 17, 1985:
Patrick McCalister with Dr. Kenneth Hynes at NYU Medical Center. "I knew it was a possibility but I never thought it would happen," said Patrick McCalister, a 24-year-old AIDS victim. "I'm going to die; I know that."
Read the Article: A Case of AIDS and a Web of Anguish


MULTIMEDIA
map AIDS Atlas: U.S. and World (PDF Format) (June 5, 2001)
chart Federal Response to the AIDS Epidemic (June 5, 2001)
interactive_feature Where Can the AIDS Virus Hide? (June 5, 2001)
chart The Changing Face of AIDS in America (June 4, 2001)
chart H.I.V. Medications (June 3, 2001)
interactive_feature AIDS in NYC (June 3, 2001)



VIDEO
  Kaiser Family Foundation: U.S. AIDS Policy: Entering the Third Decade (June 5, 2001)
  Hundreds Gather in Washington to Commemorate AIDS Epidemic (June 3, 2001)
  Sex, Drugs & AIDS
  Ali Gertz: In Her Own Words
  Protest Video
  Understanding the Disease
  A Gift for My Children


FROM THE ARCHIVES
Selected Articles
1981-1987 | 1988-1990
1991-1993 | 1994-1997
1998-1999 | 2000 | 2001


RESOURCES
In-Depth Reports
  AIDS at 20
Also available in PDF format.
  National Survey of H.I.V. and Teens
Also available in PDF format.
  Federal Spending on AIDS
PDF Format Only
  Key Facts: Women and AIDS
PDF Format Only

Fact Sheets
PDF Format Only
  AIDS in America
  Financing H.I.V. Care
  H.I.V. and AIDS Research
  Medicaid and AIDS
  Women and AIDS

(PDF formats require free Abobe Acrobat Reader)

Resources provided by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.


READERS' OPINIONS
The AIDS Epidemic
Why are there still questions about the cause of AIDS? Are the African numbers correct? What can be done?
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