The AIDS epidemic officially began on June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report newsletter reported unusual clusters of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) caused by a form of Pneumocystis carinii (now recognized as a distinct species Pneumocystis jirovecii) in five homosexual men in Los Angeles...
...the syndrome was initially termed "GRID", or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.
Prior to AIDS being identified as an "official epidemic", it was called GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) - hense the label: Gay disease
I was speaking about Reagan and AIDS to a friend of mine yesterday who tested positive in 1984 and he's still with us today.
He stated that Reagan's silence and lack of Federal monies for research put finding a way to manage the disease behind six years.
Which brings us back to the "principles" of this thread.
