HIV/AIDS

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The Early Crisis in the United States

The AIDS epidemic was first recognized in the United States in the spring of 1981. HIV the virus that causes AIDS, was not isolated until 1983. From 1981 through 1987, the average life expectancy for people diagnosed with AIDS was 18 months.




The family members, loved ones, and health care professionals who witnessed, died, or survived the early years of the U.S. AIDS epidemic experienced an unimaginable holocaust. Hundreds of young people d...Read the full article