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1980S
1980- April 24, San Francisco resident Ken Horne, the first AIDS case in the United States to be recognized at the time, is reported to the Center for Disease Control with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). He was also suffering from Cryptococcus.[12]
- October 31, French-Canadian flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas pays his first known visit to New York City bathhouses. He would later be deemed "Patient Zero" for his apparent connection to many early cases of AIDS in the United States.[13]
- December 23, Rick Wellikoff, a Brooklyn schoolteacher, dies of AIDS in New York City. He is the 4th US citizen known to die from the disease.[14]
1981
Kaposi's sarcoma on the skin of an AIDS patient.
- January 15, Nick Rock becomes the first known AIDS death in New York City.[13]
- May 18, Lawrence Mass becomes the first journalist in the world to write about the epidemic, in the New York Native, a gay newspaper.
- June 5, The CDC reports a cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia in five gay men in Los Angeles.[15]
- July 3, An article in the New York Times carries the headline: "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals". The article describes cases of Kaposi's sarcoma found in forty-one gay men in New York City and San Francisco.[16]
- July 4, The CDC reports clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in California and New York City.[17]
- First known case in the United Kingdom.[18]
- One of the first reported patients to have died of AIDS (presumptive diagnosis) in the US is reported in the journal Gastroentereology. Louis Weinstein, the treating physician, commented that "Although no clear-cut evidence of immuno-deficiency could be demonstrated in our patient, this could not be ruled out completely."
- By the end of the year, 121 people are known to have died from the disease.[6]
1982- June 18, "Exposure to some substance (rather than an infectious agent) may eventually lead to immunodeficiency among a subset of the homosexual male population that shares a particular style of life."[19]
- July 9, The CDC reports a cluster of opportunistic infections (OI) and Kaposi's sarcoma among Haitians recently entering the United States.[1]
- July 27, The term AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is proposed at a meeting in Washington of gay-community leaders, federal bureaucrats and the CDC to replace GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) as evidence showed it was not gay specific.[21]
- Summer, First known case in Italy.[22]
- September 24, The CDC defines a case of AIDS as a disease, at least moderately predictive of a defect in cell-mediated immunity, occurring in a person with no known cause for diminished resistance to that disease. Such diseases include KS, PCP, and serious OI. Diagnoses are considered to fit the case definition only if based on sufficiently reliable methods (generally histology or culture). Some patients who are considered AIDS cases on the basis of diseases only moderately predictive of cellular immunodeficiency may not actually be immunodeficient and may not be part of the current epidemic.[23]
- December 10, a baby in California becomes ill in the first known case of contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion.[13]
- First known case in Brazil.[24]
- First known case in Canada.[25]
- First known case in Australia, diagnosed at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.[26] The Terrence Higgins Trust was set up in London, UK. The Trust was the first charity in Europe to be set up in response to HIV, having been established this year.[1] It was initially named Terry Higgins Trust.[2] Terry Higgins died aged 37 on 4 July 1982 in St Thomas' Hospital London.
1983- January, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, isolates a retrovirus that kills T-cells from the lymph system of a gay AIDS patient. In the following months, she would find it in additional gay and hemophiliac sufferers. This retrovirus would be called by several names, including LAV and HTLV-III before being named HIV in 1986.[27]
- CDC National AIDS Hotline is established.
- March, United States Public Health Service (PHS or USPHS) issues donor screening guidelines. AIDS high-risk groups should not donate blood/plasma products.
- First AIDS-related death occurs in Australia, in the city of Melbourne. The Hawke Labor government invests in a significant campaign that has been credited with ensuring Australia has one of the lowest HIV infection rates in the world.
- AIDS is diagnosed in Mexico for the first time. HIV can be traced in the country to 1981.[28]
- The PCR (polymerase chain reaction) technique is developed by Kary Mullis; it is widely used in AIDS research.
- Within a few days of each other, the musicians Jobriath and Klaus Nomi become the first internationally-known recording artists to die from AIDS-related illnesses.
- First known case in Portugal.[29]
1984- March 30, Gaëtan Dugas dies. He was a French Canadian flight attendant linked by the CDC directly or indirectly to 40 of the first 248 reported cases of AIDS in the U.S.
- April 23, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announces at a press conference that an American scientist, Robert Gallo, has discovered the probable cause of AIDS: the retrovirus is subsequently named human immunodeficiency virus or HIV in 1986. She also declares that a vaccine will be available within two years.
- June 25, French philosopher Michel Foucault dies of AIDS in Paris.
- September 6, First performance at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco of The AIDS Show which runs for two years and is the subject of a 1986 documentary film of the same name.
- December 17, Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS by a doctor performing a partial lung removal. White became infected with HIV from a blood product, known as Factor VIII, which was administered to him on a regular basis as part of his treatment for hemophilia. When the public school that he attended, Western Middle School in Russiaville, Indiana, learned of his disease in 1985 there was enormous pressure from parents and faculty to bar him from school premises. Due to the widespread fear of AIDS and lack of medical knowledge, principal Ron Colby and the school board assented. His family filed a lawsuit, seeking to overturn the ban.
1985- March 2, the FDA approves an ELISA test as the first commercially available test for detecting HIV in blood.[30][31] It detects antibodies which the body makes in response to exposure to HIV and is first intended for use on all donated blood and plasma intended for transfusion and product manufacture.[30]
- October 2, Rock Hudson dies of AIDS. On July 25, 1985, he was the first American celebrity to publicly admit having AIDS; he had been diagnosed with it on June 5, 1984.
- October 12, Ricky Wilson, guitarist of American rock band The B-52's dies from an AIDS related illness. The album Bouncing Off The Satellites, which he was working on when he died, is dedicated to him when it is released the next year. The band is devastated by the loss and do not tour or promote the album. Wilson is eventually replaced on guitar by his former writing partner Keith Strickland, the B52's former drummer.
- October, a conference of public health officials including representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organizationmeet in Bangui and define AIDS in Africa as "prolonged fevers for a month or more, weight loss of over 10% and prolonged diarrhea".
- First officially reported cases in China.[32]
- November 11, An Early Frost, the first film to cover the topic of HIV/AIDS is broadcast in the U.S. on prime time TV by NBC.
1986
This image revealed the presence of both HTLV-1, and HIV.
- HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is adopted as name of the retrovirus that was first proposed as the cause of AIDS by Luc Montagnier of France, who named it LAV (lymphadenopathy associated virus) and Robert Gallo of the United States, who named it HTLV-III (human T-lymphotropic virus type III)
- January 14, "one million Americans have already been infected with the virus and that this number will jump to at least 2 million or 3 million within 5 to 10 years..." – NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, New York Times.[33]
- February, President Reagan instructs his Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to prepare a report on AIDS. (Koop was excluded from the Executive Task Force on AIDS established in 1983 by his immediate superior, Assistant Secretary of Health Edward Brandt.) Without allowing Reagan's domestic policy advisers to review the report, Koop released the report at a press conference on October 22, 1986.[34][35]
- Attorney Geoffrey Bowers is fired from the firm of Baker & McKenzie after AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma lesions appeared on his face. The firm maintained that he was fired purely for his performance.[36] He sued the firm, in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases to go to a public hearing. These events were the inspiration for the 1993 film Philadelphia.[37]
- November 18, model Gia Carangi dies of AIDS-related illness.
- First officially known cases in the Soviet Union[38][medical citation needed]and India.[39]
1987- AZT (zidovudine), the first antiretroviral drug, becomes available to treat HIV.[6]
- On February 4, popular performing musician Liberace dies from AIDS related illness.
- In April the FDA approves a Western blot test as a more precise test for the presence of HIV antibodies than the ELISA test.[30]
- On May 28, playwright and performer Charles Ludlam dies of AIDS-related PCP pneumonia.
- On July 11, Tom Waddell, founder of the Gay Games, dies of AIDS.
- Randy Shilts investigative journalism book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic published chronicling the 1980–1985 discovery and spread of HIV/AIDS, government indifference, and political infighting in the United States to what was initially perceived as a gay disease. (Shilts himself would die of the disease on February 17, 1994.)
- On August 18 the FDA sanctioned the first clinical trial to test an HIV vaccine candidate in a research participant.[30]
1988- May, C. Everett Koop sends an eight-page, condensed version of his Surgeon General's Report on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome report named Understanding AIDS to all 107,000,000 households in the United States, becoming the first federal authority to provide explicit advice to US citizens on how to protect themselves from AIDS.[34][40]
- November 11, The fact-based AIDS-themed film Go Toward The Light is broadcast on CBS.
- December 1, The first World AIDS Day takes place.
- In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the rock musicians Miguel Abuelo (March 26) and Federico Moura (December 21), die from AIDS-related complications.
1989- The television movie The Ryan White Story airs. It stars Judith Light as Jeanne, Lukas Haas as Ryan and Nikki Cox as sister Andrea. Ryan White had a small cameo appearance as Chad, a young patient with AIDS. Another AIDS-themed film, The Littlest Victims, debuted in 1989, biopicing James Oleske, the first U.S. physician to discover AIDS in newborns during AIDS' early years, when many thought it was only spread through homosexual sex.
- NASCAR driver Tim Richmond dies from AIDS-related complications.
- Amanda Blake best known for her portrayal of saloon owner Miss Kitty on the television show Gunsmoke becomes the first actress of note in the United States to die of AIDS-related illness. Cause of death was Cardiac Arrest stemming from CMV Hepatitis, an AIDS-related hepatitis.
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