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HIV at 40: Amazing Advances but Challenges Remain Advertisement
Donald Abrams, MD, Constance Wofsy, MD, and Paul Volberding, MD. Source: UCSF Library Special Collections Ward 84-86 Records Courtesy of UCSF
HIV at 40: Amazing Advances but Challenges Remain
Pioneering HIV doctor Paul Volberding and veteran activist Gregg Gonsalves reflect on the legacy of AIDS and its implications for COVID-19. Advertisement
On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Report (MMWR) published the first report of AIDS, describing five cases of unusual Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young gay men in Los Angeles.
On July 1, his first day on the job, Paul Volberding, MD, then age 31, saw the first Kaposi sarcoma (KS) patient admitted to San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Two days later, a second MMWR report described 10 more cases of PCP among gay men in Los Angeles and San Francisco, as wel
40 years ago, the first cases of AIDS were reported in the US
On June 5, 1981, a curious report appeared in the Center for Disease Control’s weekly public health digest: Five young, gay men across Los Angeles had been diagnosed with an unusual lung infection known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and two of them had died.
It was the first time that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) the devastating advanced-stage of HIV infection that would go on to claim the lives of more than 32 million people globally was reported in the US.
Days after the initial report hit the newspapers, the CDC learned of many more such cases in gay men. Not only did those men have PCP, they also had other secondary infections, among them a rare and aggressive cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS).
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Former Cpl. John Lowe rests during an operation in Panjwaii, Afghanistan, on March 23, 2010. (Murray Brewster / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Murray Brewster May 01, 2021 - 8:00 PM DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - America’s longest war, the two-decade-long conflict in Afghanistan that started in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, killed tens of thousands of people, dogged four U.S. presidents and ultimately proved unwinnable despite its staggering cost in blood and treasure. This final chapter, with President Joe Biden’s decision to pull all American troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, has prompted a reckoning over the war’s lost lives and colossal expenditure.
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