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| 1987 History |
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- At the beginning of the year, there were intensified campaign
against AIDS in the UK, leaflets were delivered to household and media
awareness were also made.
- By February, the World Health Organization had been notified of
43,880 cases of AIDS in 91 countries.
- The first official case of AIDS was recorded in the Soviet Union,
after which a missive HIV test was conducted.
- In march, AZT was approved by
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of AIDS.
- In June the U. S. Public Health Service added AIDS to its list of
diseases for which people on public health grounds could be excluded
from the USA.
- President Kauanda of Zambia announced that his son had died of AIDS,
and appealed to the international community to treat AIDS as a worldwide
problem. In Uganda, 16 volunteers who had been personally affected by
HIV/AIDS, came together to found the community organization TASO.
- AIDS was debated upon on the floor of the general assembly of the
UN.
- By December, 71,751 cases of AIDS had been reported to the World
Health Organization with the greatest number of cases reported from the
USA (47,022). Countries reporting over 2000 cases included France
(2,523), Uganda (2,369) and Brazil (2,102). Five other countries
reported over 1000 cases: Tanzania (1,608), Germany (1,486), Canada
(1,334), UK (1,170) and Italy (1,104).
WHO also reported that an estimated 5 to 10 million people were infected
with HIV worldwide, with 150,000 cases of AIDS expected to develop in
the following 12 months and up to 3 million within the next 5 years.
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| 1988 history |
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- Massive AIDS education campaign was launched in the USA, with
distribution of the booklet "Understanding AIDS", by Surgeon General C.
Everett Koop, which later became the most widely read publication in the
USA with about 86.9 million readers.
- The first World AIDS Day took place, On December 1st, with WHO
asking everyone to "Join the Worldwide Effort."
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| 1989 history |
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- By March 1st, 145 countries had reported 142,000 cases of AIDS to
the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO however considered this as
under reporting, and estimated the actual number of people with AIDS,
around the world, to be over 400,000. It was predicted that this figure
would rise to 1.1 million by 1991. It was also estimated that 5-10
million people were already infected with HIV.
- In October the second drug for the treatment of AIDS, dideoxyinosine
(ddI), started to be made available to people with AIDS, even though
only preliminary tests had been completed.
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| 1990 history |
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- In January, it was reported that a large number of children in
Romanian hospitals and orphanages had become infected with HIV as a
result of multiple blood transfusions and the reuse of needles. Also in
china 146 people in Yunnan Province near the Burmese border were
infected also due to reuse of needles.
- By the end of the year, over 307,000 AIDS cases had been officially
reported to the WHO, but the actual number was estimated to be closer to
a million. The estimate of the number of people with HIV worldwide was
8-10 million. Of the 8 million, it was estimated that about 5 million
were men, and that 3 million were women.
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| 1991 history |
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- In January, the CDC confirmed that two people had been infected
through dental treatments.
- In France, haemophiliacs who became infected through infected blood
products.
- The red ribbon became an international symbol for AIDS awareness
- As the end of 1991, about 450,000 AIDS cases had been reported to
Global Programme on AIDS World's Health Organization (WHO). The
estimated global distribution of HIV and AIDS varied from 5 to 7 million
men and from 3 to 5 million women that had been infected with HIV. Of
these 9-11 million HIV-infected adults, nearly 1.5 million were
estimated to have progressed to AIDS.
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| 1992 history |
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- WHO set it's priority to make condoms readily available and
affordable for residents in Africa and Asia by the year 2000.
- The tennis star Arthur Ashe announced that he had been infected with
HIV as a result of a blood transfusion in 1983.
- The Eight (VIII) International Conference was successfully held in
Amsterdam rather than in its originally planned venue in Boston due to
the U.S. travel policies on HIV positive people.
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