HIV/AIDS and Edutn: Lsons om the 1980s and the Gay Male Communy the Uned Stat | Uned Natns

Contents:

• GAY-RELATED IMMUNE FICIENCY
• HIV/AIDS AND EDUTN: LSONS OM THE 1980S AND THE GAY MALE COMMUNY THE UNED STAT
• THE ACQUIRED IMMUNOFICIENCY SYNDROME GAY MEN
• GAY-RELATED IMMUNOFICIENCY

GAY-RELATED IMMUNE FICIENCY

READ MORE: Panmics That Changed History: A TimeleThe AIDS Epimic Aris Though HIV arrived the Uned Stat around 1970, didn’t e to the public’s attentn until the early 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh Pnmocystis pnmonia, which is ed by the normally harmls fung Pnmocystis jirovecii. Bee the disease appeared to affect mostly homosexual men, officials ially lled gay-related immune ficiency, or the CDC disvered all major rout of the disease’s transmissn—as well as that female partners of AIDS-posive men uld be fected— 1983, the public nsired AIDS a gay disease.

It was even lled the “gay plague” for many years September of 1982, the CDC ed the term AIDS to scribe the disease for the first time. AIDS was first observed Amerin gay muni but is believed to have veloped om a chimpanzee vis om Wt Ai the 1920s. In fear of HIV makg to blood banks, the FDA also enacted regulatns that ban gay men om donatg blood.

The FDA would revise s l 2015 to allow gay men to give blood if they’ve been celibate for a year, though blood banks routely tt blood for the end of 1985, there were more than 20, 000 reported s of AIDS, wh at least one se every regn of the is Developed In 1987, the first antiretroviral meditn for HIV, azidothymide (AZT), beme available.

HIV/AIDS AND EDUTN: LSONS OM THE 1980S AND THE GAY MALE COMMUNY THE UNED STAT

HIV/AIDS the 1990s and 2000s In 1991, the red ribbon beme an ternatnal symbol of AIDS that year, basketball player Magic Johnson announced he had HIV, helpg to further brg awarens to the issue and dispel the stereotype of beg a gay disease. A major study pleted 2019 showed that over 750 gay men on an anti-viral treatment did not transm the vis to their partners. Gay-related immune ficiencyGay-related immune ficiency (GRID) (sometim rmally lled the gay plague or GRIDS, standg for Gay-related immune ficiency syndrome) was the origal name for AIDS, a name proposed after public health scientists noticed clters of Kaposi's sara and Pnmocystis pnmonia among gay mal California and New York Cy.

[1] Durg the early history of AIDS, an ad hoc anizatn lled Gay Men's Health Crisis was found to bat what was then thought to be a homosexual-only disease perhaps produced by high levels of promiscuy, traveno dg e, and age of poppers. In this new name, scientists were supported by polil figur who realized that the term "gay-related" did not accurately scribe the mographic that the disease affected. ^ A Clter of Kaposi's Sara and Pnmocystis rii Pnmonia among Homosexual Male Rints of Los Angel and Orange Counti, California.

Knowledge is power: If we learned anythg the gay male muny durg the early days of the HIV/AIDS epimic the Uned Stat, was that. Inially mislabeled "gay-related immune ficiency" (GRID), valuable time was lost rpondg to the crisis bee most felt safe the belief that they were not at risk.

THE ACQUIRED IMMUNOFICIENCY SYNDROME GAY MEN

Sce early victims were predomantly gay men, the stigma attached to homosexualy the medil, erng, law enforcement and eccliastil stutns beme a barrier to unrstandg, preventn, and out of doctoral study the mid-1980s, I was part of the first generatn of mental health provirs to rpond to the epimic the San Francis Bay Area Northern California. Her Highns Sheikha Mozah exhorted the atten om around the world to not stop at talk but, stead, m themselv to actn agast both the sndalo lack of accs to dimentary tn for over one hundred ln school-age children worldwi, as well as the tolerable equi of genr, class, and enomic stature which impair the attament of basic years ago, the gay muny was effective tg var social and profsnal muni bee, beg highly ted, privileged, and entled, was unaaid to speak the tth and go head-to-head wh powerful sectors that were perceived as obstctg accs to rmatn, rearch, treatment, and fundg. I was one of many who engaged medil and law enforcement profsnals our muni to te them about social bias and mistaken notns about homosexualy, so that they would be ls aaid to serve the muny.

One, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer (LGBTQ) Prints Higher Edutn is newly formed and "advanc effective learship the realm of post-sendary tn, supports profsnal velopment of LGBTQ lears that sector, and provis tn and advocy regardg LGBTQ issu wh the global amy and for the public at large. Gay-related immune ficiency (GRID) was the origal name for a disease currently known as AIDS. In the early days of AIDS (i.e., 1982–1985), the terms "gay ncer" and "gay plague" were also ed.[2][3][4].

GAY-RELATED IMMUNOFICIENCY

It was ially spelled A.I.D.S.[6] The reason for the GRID-to-AIDS change nomenclature was the realizatn that the "gay" attributn did not fully enpass the mographics of the disease. The e of GRID and gay-related immune ficiency the popular lerature reached a peak 1995 [source need]; the terms have rapidly sunk to obsolcence subsequently.

One reason for the e of "gay" the disease name was that the first regnized s of AIDS were rtricted to gay men, who reprented a margalized group that uld be easily further stigmatized.[7] Another reason may have to do wh the tenncy of people Wtern societi to seek meang diseased stat.[8] This phenomenon was regnized by San Sontag as a form of punishment, and her book Illns as Metaphor, she wrote: "Nothg is more punive than to give a disease a meang".[9] The third reason for the emphasis on sexual orientatn may be due to the belief the Jt World Hypothis, i.e., the claim that we live a world where people generally get what they serve. "New Homosexual Disorr Worri Health Officials".