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icklefickle

AIDS

Jun 09, 2006 15:37

So there's a lot of AIDS-related stuff in the media right now, since it's the 25th anniversary of the disease. But what exactly does this mean? Well, here, in an excerpt from And the Band Played On... is a description of exactly what this anniversary is of:

On Friday, June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ( Read more... )

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lowfatsourcreme June 9 2006, 22:27:59 UTC

I guess I've been kind of lax, as I haven't heard a whole lot about this supposed "anniversary." But that *is* really stupid. There's no way you can assign a date to this, unless you qualify it like "anniversary of kind of acknowledging the existence of AIDS in the US" or something.

icklefickle June 11 2006, 05:06:36 UTC

basically, read And the Band Played On... and I also have a pretty infuriating PBS special that I guess is part of the 25 year business that I could loan you... or you could watch it online since you actually have a high speed connection http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/view/

Honestly, I read/hear some of this stuff about early AIDS, and it just makes me want to beat the crap out of someone/something (and this is hearing stuff I've already heard).