Ronald Reagan's Secret Battle AIDS and the Presidency

The History of the AIDS Epidemic in. Black America, 2011 is designed for educational purposes only and is not en gaged in rendering medical advice or profession ... HIV, which stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a kind of retrovirus that can, if untreated, become AIDS, which stands for Acquired ... HIV/AIDS • HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the body's immune system. If HIV is not treated, it can lead to AIDS ( ... 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 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. 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 ... ... died. It was the first time that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) – the devastating advanced-stage of HIV infection that would go ... When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s, the Reagan administration's first reaction was chilling: It appeared to treat the epidemic as a joke. ... disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is ... aids-epidemic-ronald-reagan. Berger, Stephanie. “Abstinence-Only ... 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 ...