Ronald Reagan A President's Secret Battle with AIDS

treatment and a decaying immune system from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). ... political motivation for the Reagan administration to increase AIDS- ... But just as his Communist foes hid their secret beliefs, Roy Cohn hid his private life as a homosexual. When AIDS killed him in the bloom of the Reagan years, ... Later that same year, the acronym “AIDS” came into use, meaning acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. In December 1982, three heterosexual ... In the early 1980s, AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) was initially ... the Reagan administration to help those with the disease. ARCHIVAL (NBC ... Also on This Day in History June | 5. 1981 · First scientific report on AIDS is published · 1980s ... September 24, 1982 - CDC used the term “AIDS” Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) for the first time in the MMWR. ... dead from AIDS-related complications. 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 ... ... AIDS-related complications during approximately the first twenty years of the epidemic. ... acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (or AIDS). May 18– ... Peter Staley, a longtime HIV/AIDS activist based in New York, said Ronald Reagan virtually ignored the AIDS crisis in an era where the federal ... 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 ...