Silence = Defunding, New Infections, Social Injustice, and Death

Thirty-six years ago, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described a rare lung infection in five previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles (AIDS.gov, 2016). The report in the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report was America's introduction to what would become known as HIV infection and AIDS. Since those early years, significant scientific advances –isolation of HIV in 1984; introduction of the first screening test, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), in 1985; approval of the first antiretroviral agent, zidovudine, in 1987; and the introduction of protease inhibitors and highly active antiretroviral therapy in 1995 – have transforme d HIV into a chronic, manageable disease.
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research