By Sarah Gardner

*AIDS/HIV Timeline

*Discovery of AIDS

First known retroviruses were discovered in 1911 in animalsDebilitatingShut down immune system

First retrovirus found in humans in 1980 by Robert Gallo.Original name for HIV was HTLV-1 and HTLV-II

*Discovery of HIV

*Discovered in 1981 via opportunistic diseases

*pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

* Discrimination against Homosexuality

*First five cases of AIDS found in men who happened to be gay

*Up until 1973 homosexuality was treated as a mental illness

*Electric shock

*Conversion therapy

*Despite gay activist groups emerging, discrimination continued through the 80’s

*Epidemic

*AIDS was spreading rapidly

*270 people reported to have AIDS and most were gay

*The acronym GRID(gay related immune deficiency) was used as an legitimate term to describe AIDS

*Positive News

*Determined AIDS was not, after all, a gay disease

*The Gay Men’s Health Crisis forms in 1982

*By then tens of thousands with AIDS

*Two inspiring stories

*Rock Hudson- Movie Star

*Ryan White- Not gay

*Medical Research

*Slow progress of find treatment

*FDA slow to get drug out to public

*ACT-UP- AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power

*AZT

*By 1993- New drug created

*Cost of Treatment

*Increasingly expensive

*ACT-UP

*1994- Ryan White Care Act

*Statistics

*By 1994 AIDS becomes the leading cause of death in Americans ages 24-44

*By 1995 – 500,000 people with AIDS

*Turn for the better

*1997- HAART cuts down death 47%

*Life expectancy the same as someone with out AIDS

*HAART decreases expenditure due to reduction in hospitalization

*1999- Simian virus found

*Chimpanzees have ability to resist

*2011

*Ten FDA approved protease inhibitors become available. Since then, newer antiretroviral drugs have been developed for people who have developed drug-resistant HIV

*References

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*Bardhan-Quallen, S. (2005). Aids. Farmington Hills: Lucent Books.

*Cunningham, K. (2009). Hiv/aids. Greensboro: Morgan Reynolds.

* Lerner, E. K., & Hombs, M. E. (1998). Aids crisis in america. (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

* Pepin, J. (2011). The origin of aids. New York: Cambridge University Press.

*Wexler, B. (2012). Aids/hiv. Farmington Hills: Gale.