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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/2/2021
  

  The Agency of the Irresponsible

  by Sarah Swedberg

  When universities bend to political pressure and adopt "personal responsibility" policies for vaccination, masking, and social distancing they give agency to the irresponsible and take it away from those who are actively working to protect public health. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/29/2021
  

  AIDS Disappeared from Public View Without Ending. Will Covid-19 do the Same?

  by Dan Royles

  AIDS activism shifted from framing the epidemic as a political crisis to a medical problem, allowing the ongoing vulnerability of the poor to fade from view as pharmaceutical advances have helped control the spread and impact of HIV among the affluent. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/20/2021
  

  In Fury We Trust (Review of Sarah Shulman)

  Sarah Shulman's book seeks to recover the histories of AIDS activists beyond white gay men, using two decades of oral history work to show the breadth of a coalition including women, lesbians, people of color, drug users, and the incarcerated, who all experienced the stakes of AIDS differently. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  

  Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis

  Washington journalist Karen Tumulty writes that Nancy Reagan worked against the demands of social conservatives to ask her husband's administration to pay attention to the AIDS crisis, but her efforts weren't enough. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/17/2021
  

  The Original Shock of AIDS in “It’s a Sin”

  The British show "It's a Sin" reconstructs the emergence of AIDS in London through the story of a group of flatmates working to reconcile fear and affirmation. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/7/2021
  

  National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Reminds Us of the Deep Costs of Inequality

  by Dan Royles

  "This history shows us that biomedical interventions such as antiretrovirals to treat HIV or the vaccine against the coronavirus yield some progress in the fight against epidemic disease, but do little to alter the underlying inequities that make some communities more vulnerable to illness in the first place."

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• SOURCE: Retro Report
  7/2/2020
  

  What Dr. Fauci and Others Learned About Battling Covid-19 from the Fight Against AIDS (Video)

  The AIDS pandemic was marked by a slow response and a lack of clear public health messages and testing. Despite those lessons, we were still unprepared for Covid-19.

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• SOURCE: The MIT Press Reader
  5/26/2020
  

  Lessons From Operation 'Denver,' the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign

  Historian Douglas Selvage sheds light on a conspiracy theory that reverberates to this day.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/27/2020
  

  Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

  Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of “murder” and “genocide” recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  Trump’s Attacks on the WHO Evoke Nostalgia for George W. Bush

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  George W. Bush's promotion of cooperative international health initiaitves to fight HIV-AIDS is a bright spot in his presidential legacy.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/5/2020
  

  Scapegoating New York Means Ignoring Its Desperate Need

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Blaming the city for coronavirus is a way of letting the federal government off the hook.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/22/2020
  

  The Epidemics America Got Wrong

  by Jim Downs

  Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country, argues history professor Jim Downs.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/2020
  

  We Can’t Forget Women as We Tell The Story of COVID-19

  by Jennifer Brier

  Women who have been medical (and political) subjects of HIV/AIDS also have much to teach us during our current pandemic.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Coronavirus: Three Lessons from the AIDS Crisis

  by Laurie Marhoefer

  The U.S. made serious mistakes when the HIV virus and AIDS emerged. Those errors cost many lives. But our nation learned a few things, too.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/27/19
  

  Quest to Solve Assassination Mystery Revives an AIDS Conspiracy Theory

  “We were at war,” said the former militia member, Alexander Jones. “Black people in South Africa were the enemy.”

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• SOURCE: NPR
  

  Long Before Facebook, The KGB Spread Fake News About AIDS

  Back in the 1980s, the rumor that AIDS was human-made was based partially on a report written in 1986 by Russian-born biophysicist Jakob Segal.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-12-18
  

  The Russian ‘fake news’ campaign that damaged the United States — in the 1980s

  by Alexander Poster

  2016 wasn't the first time that Russia used fake news as a weapon against the United States.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-12-17
  

  Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News

  In the 1980s, the Soviets peddled "bum dope about AIDS" around the world. Moscow's tactics haven't changed much in the years since.

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• SOURCE: Science Daily
  10-26-16
  

  Cambridge historian helps clear man accused of causing AIDS epidemic in the US

  A combination of historical and genetic research reveals the error and hype that led to the coining of the term 'Patient Zero' and the blaming of one man for the spread of HIV across North America.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  12-1-15
  

  The Reagan Administration’s Unearthed Response to the AIDS Crisis Is Chilling

  A new short film, When AIDS Was Funny, unearths never-before-heard audio reaction to the escalating AIDS crisis.