AIDS and the American Presidency Reagan's Impact on the Epidemic

... AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), they discovered its cause: HIV. ... Over 49,000 people in the country died of AIDS-related causes. Today as we remember the thousands of people in Seattle who have lost their lives to AIDS-related complications or are still living with HIV, we ... Since the 1980s, the conceptualization of HIV and AIDS has come a long way. First termed Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease and thought of as a punishment ... Reagan was tested for infection with the AIDS virus in January ... Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which disables the body's immune ... "It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s," Hillary Clinton told an ... Since 1988, World AIDS Day has been an opportunity to remember those lost and support those affected, while uniting in the goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 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. The disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) first appeared in the ... The death of Hollywood actor Rock Hudson from complications related to AIDS ... ... related immune disease” or GRID. Within a few years, it took on a more permanent, and more accurate name: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ... Globally, new HIV infections peaked in 1998 and AIDS-related deaths peaked in 2004. Despite this apparent success in decreasing levels of ...