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Wed, 01/16/2019 - 11:38
gkellett
1981-2023
Timeline Entry
What Makes a Health Crisis?
Five Men Die of a Simple Infection
It’s Called AIDS
The Blood Supply Is Infected
People With AIDS Adopt the Denver Principles
The Retrovirus Causing AIDS Is Isolated
Ryan White Is Diagnosed With AIDS
Thousands Are Dying
A Response Stirs
Uganda Starts an AIDS Control Program
Blood Banks Start Testing the Blood Supply
First Antiretroviral Treatment Is Approved by the FDA
Activists Break Through Into the Mainstream
Reagan Acknowledges Crisis in a Dedicated Speech
The World Works Together
The Pandemic Peaks
The Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS Is Launched
FDA Approves First Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy for Use in the United States
U.S. Companies Block Cheaper Drugs in South Africa
United Nations Declares Commitment to the AIDS Fight
The Global Fund Starts
PEPFAR Is launched
PrEP Is Approved
United Nations Introduces Plan to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030
The Fight Against HIV/AIDS Is Not Over