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

Contents:

• GAY-RELATED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY
• GAY-RELATED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY
• GAY-RELATED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY
• HIV/AIDS AND EDUTN: LSONS OM THE 1980S AND THE GAY MALE COMMUNY THE UNED STAT
• HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

GAY-RELATED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY

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 1980s.In 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 GRID.Though 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 after.In 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 HIV.By the end of 1985, there were more than 20,000 reported s of AIDS, wh at least one se every regn of the world.AZT is Developed In 1987, the first antiretroviral meditn for HIV, azidothymide (AZT), beme available.Numero other meditns for HIV are now available, and are typilly ed together what’s known as antiretroviral therapy (ART) or highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART).The regim work by preventg the vis om multiplyg, givg the immune system a chance to rever and fight off fectns and HIV-related ncers.

GAY-RELATED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY

HIV/AIDS the 1990s and 2000s In 1991, the red ribbon beme an ternatnal symbol of AIDS awarens.In 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.

To prerve the articl as they origally appeared, The Tim do not alter, ed or update them.Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived versns.ASERIOUS disorr of the immune system that has been known to doctors for ls than a year - a disorr that appears to affect primarily male homosexuals - has now afflicted at least 335 people, of whom has killed 136, officials of the Centers for Disease Control Atlanta said yterday. Feral health officials are ncerned that tens of thoands more homosexual men may be silently affected and therefore vulnerable to potentially grave ailments.Moreover, this immune-system breakdown, which has been implited a rare type of ncer, lled Kaposi's sara, and seems to ve s wake a wi variety of ser fectns and other disorrs, has veloped among some heterosexual women and bisexual and heterosexual men.At a recent Congrsnal hearg, Dr.

Rearchers ll A.I.D., for acquired immunoficiency disease, or GRID, for gay-related immunoficiency.

GAY-RELATED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY

But most s have occurred among homosexual men, particular those who have had numero sexual partners, often anonymo partners whose inty remas unknown.Acrdg to both the Centers for Disease Control and the Natnal Cancer Instute Bethda, Md., GRID has reached epimic proportns and the current totals probably reprent ''jt the tip of the iceberg.'' Prelimary rults of immunologil tts have led some Feral health officials to fear that tens of thoands of homosexual men may have the acquired immune dysfunctn and be at risk for velopg plitns such as Kaposi's ncer, fectns and other disorrs at some future date.GRID is ''a matter of urgent public health and scientific importance,'' Dr.

Most experts say that if there is an fect e, is not a sgle anism, but an anism actg together wh another factor or factors, perhaps a dg.Epimlogists om the Centers for Disease Control have done studi among homosexual men wh and whout the immune disorr but matched age, background and other characteristics. After ttg for more than 130 potential risk factors, they found that the median number of lifetime male sexual partners for affected homosexual men was 1,160, pared to 524 for male homosexual men who did not have the syndrome.

The ncer has not been lked to homosexuals Ai, and the reasons for s high equency there are unknown.In s new form this untry, the urse of Kaposi's sara generally has been rapid and fatal.

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

Why Now and Not Before?Given the fact that homosexualy is not new, the most puzzlg qutn is why the outbreak is occurrg now, and not sometime the past.Scientific vtigatns are wi rangg, although most are foced on vis, other anisms, dgs, or a batn of such factors.Bee homosexuals affected by GRID have reported g nre dgs more equently than homosexuals who have not, some studi have foced on this class of dgs, which have e to wispread street e sce the 1960's,But although epimlogil studi have not ''totally exonerated nr, the scientific evince to implite them is que shaky,'' acrdg to Dr. Mass, a New York Cy physician, said that ''gay people whose life style nsists of anonymo sexual enunters are gog to have to do some ser rethkg.''The urgent need to disver the e of the immune system disorr and to prevent the problems creat has been unrsred by Dr. Lbenste, who said she has treated 62 such patients the last year and who is a leadg vtigator of the syndrome, summarized by sayg: ''This problem certaly is not gog away.''A versn of this article appears prt on  , Sectn C, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: NEW HOMOSEXUAL DISORDER WORRIES HEALTH OFFICIALS.

HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

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