Monday, July 28, 2008

How did people feel about HIV aids in the time period 1955-1987

How did people feel about HIV aids in the time period 1955-1987?

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1 :
AIDS was very rare if at all in the 60's it hit around the late 60's then in the 70's. Every one thought they were going to die. It was like the Bubonic plague hitting. No one really knew what was going to happen. I remember in the early 70's three cases that hit out biggest city in the area, they had no idea what to do with these people.
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I think the major scare was in the late 70s and early 80s. I know someone who had a baby around this time and there was a mass panic - my baby picked up a cup in a restaurant! He's going to get aids! And - omg my baby touched a door handle! No one really knew how it was transmitted and it was a very scary time for people. A lot of rumours were going around about how it could be caught from kissing or touching someone's hand.
3 :
First confirmed case of a person dying from HIV/AIDS complications was Robert R. from Missouri in North America in 1969, but his cause of death was not confirmed until 1984. In the early 80s, HIV/AIDS was not what it was today. It was gay men in NYC and San Francisco who were dying from a rare form of pneumonia (PCP) at a high rate from an unknown disease, that was later termed GRID (gay-related immunodeficiency disease), and would eventually be called HIV/AIDS. There was not the "panic" that set in with the early 90s, but it was getting there.
4 :
A lot of people even today have the same attitude about HIV/AIDS as they would have done in the early 80's.
5 :
it really wasn't prevalent until the late 70s. and the majority of folks thought that it was a gay men's disease. but we all know now that's not the case.
6 :
Scientists think that HIV has been around since the turn of the last century,and some think from the 1930's. In the 80's people thought that HIV was a disease of gay men and iv drug users.When Rock Hudson became infected people took HIV seriously.There was no public knowledge of HIV between 1955 and 1977. There was and still is stigma associated with HIV.

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