AIDS and Presidential Power Ronald Reagan's Silent Battle

AIDS and HIV are still problems in the U.S., though not to the degree they were during their peak in the 1980s and '90s. The diminished ... Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, oversaw the United States response to the emergence of the HIV/AIDS crisis. For example, the first medically used nomenclature was 'gay-related immune deficiency ... the treatment of HIV/AIDS and related complications. Accompanying ... ... AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), they discovered its cause: HIV. ... Over 49,000 people in the country died of AIDS-related causes. spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the resultant acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the. United States, it is ... It took a while before the social and behavioral sciences were recognized, not only as useful but vital, to the HIV/AIDS response. The Reagan ... Before Rock Hudson announced he was dying of complications caused by HIV-AIDS, he'd never even publicly come out as gay. Hudson's death ... Since the beginning of the epidemic, about 76 million people worldwide have acquired HIV, and some 33 million have died from AIDS-related ... Numerous federal and local government departments and agencies are involved in the domestic HIV/AIDS response, which together provide disease ... Also on This Day in History June | 5. 1981 · First scientific report on AIDS is published · 1980s ...