CHL Highlights Coverage of 25th Anniversary of AIDS Diagnosis

Several California newspapers recently published articles addressing the 25th anniversary of the first AIDS diagnosis.

Twenty five years ago on June 5, 1981, CDC published a report on the appearance of a rare strain of pneumonia in five men who had sex with men in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. One month later, 26 cases of Kaposi's sarcoma, another rare disease that later would become associated with AIDS-related illnesses, were reported among MSM in California and New York, according to the Times (Maugh/Chong, Los Angeles Times, 6/5).

AIDS-related illnesses are the No. 1 cause of death worldwide among people ages 15 to 59, (Brackett, Miami Herald, 6/5).

Headlines appear below.

Los Angeles Times

• "Battling AIDS: A Man on A Mission: Physician Robert Scott Is Split Between A Busy Practice in Oakland and Another Treating AIDS Patients in Zimbabwe" (Freedberg, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/4).
  
  
• "Doctor's Fought Fear and Affliction: In Early '80s, San Francisco Volunteers Set Standards for Research of The News Disease and Care of Patients" (Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/4).
  
  
• "Disease, Denial Devastating for African Americans: Blacks Are Most Vulnerable" (Fullbright, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/5).
  
  
• "Gay Men's Chorus Carries On: A Quarter-Century After The Start of The Epidemic, The Group Has Suffered The Deaths of 257 Members" (May, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/4).
  
  
• "How AIDS Changed Us" (Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/4).
  
  
• "Interactive Timeline: 1981 to 2006" (San Francisco Chronicle, 6/5).
  
  
• "Podcast: Survivor" (Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/5).
  
  
• "Prevention Evolves Into Wider Array of Options" (Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/4).
  
  
• "Survivors With HIV Challenging Science: Immune Systems May Hold Clues to Virus" (Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/4).
  

• "Doctor Pioneered Approach to AIDS" (Feder Ostrov, San Jose Mercury News, 6/5).
  
  
• "Advances Against AIDS Ripple Through Medicine" (Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, 6/5).
  
  
• "Giving of Themselves With Love" (Feder Ostrov, San Jose Mercury News, 6/5).
  

Several broadcast programs also reported on the 25th anniversary of the first AIDS diagnosis:

• ABCNews' "Good Morning America": The segment includes comments from Hydeia Broadbent, an HIV/AIDS advocate who discussed living with HIV publicly when she was a young girl, and Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ("Good Morning America," ABCNews, 6/5). A related ABCNews story is available online. Video of the segment is available online.
  
  
• CBS' "Evening News": The segment includes comments from Jay Levy, professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco and director of the Laboratory of Tumor and AIDS Virus Research, and an HIV-positive woman in the U.S. involved with the Well Project, an online support space for HIV-positive women (Kaledin, "Evening News," CBS, 6/2). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• CBS' "Evening News": The segment includes comments from Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations; Michael Gottlieb, an HIV/AIDS researcher who was the lead author of the June 5, 1981, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on the disease that came to be known as AIDS; Mervyn Silverman, former president of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (Mitchell, "Evening News," CBS, 6/4). A related CBS story is available online. The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer. In addition, video of a CBS profile of Lagena Lookabill Greene, an HIV-positive U.S. resident, is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• KPCC's "AirTalk": The segment includes comments from Gottlieb; Lee Klosinski, co-director of the Development Core for the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services; and Paul Sharp, professor of genetics at University of Nottingham in England (Mantle, "AirTalk," KPCC, 6/1). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• NPR's "Morning Edition": The segment includes comments from Fauci; Donald Francis, former president of VaxGen; Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV and director of the Maryland-based Institute of Human Virology; Margaret Heckler, Reagan administration HHS Secretary; Bruce Walker, director of the Division of AIDS at Harvard Medical School; and health professionals and volunteers involved in an HIV vaccine research trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Knox, "Morning Edition," NPR, 6/5). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• NPR's "Talk of the Nation/Science Friday": The segment includes comments from Paul De Lay, director of monitoring and evaluation at UNAIDS (Flatow, "Talk of the Nation/Science Friday," NPR, 6/2). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• NPR's "Talk of the Nation/Science Friday": The segment includes comments from Wafaa El-Sadr chief of infectious disease at Harlem Hospital Center and director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health; Garrett; and Rowena Johnston, director of research at amfAR (Flatow, "Talk of the Nation/Science Friday," NPR, 6/2). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday": The segment includes comments from Wayne Shandera, co-author of the June 5, 1981, MMWR report (Wilson, "Weekend Edition Saturday," NPR, 6/3). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday": The segment includes comments from Beatrice Hahn, a virologist at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, and Jim Moore, comparative primatologist at the University of California-San Diego (Knox, "Weekend Edition Sunday," NPR, 6/4). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• PRI's "The World": The program, a production of BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston, on Friday concluded its series on the use of music worldwide to raise awareness about and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS (Fink, "The World," PRI, 6/2). The complete segment is available online in Windows Media.