AIDS and the Reagan Era A Silent Struggle in the White House

"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 ... To date, all that I met at Portsmouth Naval Hospital have all died from AIDS-related complications. I watched HIV/AIDS suck the joy out of their ... In 1995 AIDS became the leading cause of death for Americans aged 25 to 44. By mid-2002, while the annual rate of new HIV cases dropped in the U.S. to 40,000 ( ... The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic began thirty years ago. According to the World Health. Organization (WHO), since then an estimated 39 ... HIV/AIDS activism in the USA emerged as a reaction to discriminatory tendencies in society in general and the handling of the epidemic in particular. The disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) first appeared in the ... The death of Hollywood actor Rock Hudson from complications related to AIDS ... National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; 'We Were Here' premieres in San Francisco; Liberace dies of AIDS-related complications... AIDS Is Everyday / March. ACT ... Warren Krause, who had died due to complications from Acquired Immune ... The first reported cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the ... HIV-Related Laws & Policies. Ronald Reagan and AIDS. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died June 5, 2004, after a decade living ... The Reagan administration was unwilling, until very recently, to even target HIV-related programs to the black and Latino communities. See, e.g., Nickens, AIDS, ...