20 min
AIDS at 40 This Is Why
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- Politics
On June 5, 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control published a report about a rare type of pneumonia affecting gay men in Los Angeles, CA. It would be the first reports of HIV and AIDS in North America.
On this episode of This Is Why, we look back at 40 years of science around HIV/AIDS and where treatment and policy has progressed for that pandemic.
Contact:
Adam Toy - @Adam_Toy on Twitter
Dave McIvor - @d_mac1519 on Twitter
This is Why - @ThisIsWhy on Twitter
Email us - thisiswhy@globalnews.ca
Guests:
Gary Lacasse, executive director of the Canadian AIDS Society
Episode Resources:
"40 years of HIV/AIDS: a painful anniversary" in The Lancet
"Forty years on and new UNAIDS report gives evidence that we can end AIDS" from UNAIDS
On June 5, 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control published a report about a rare type of pneumonia affecting gay men in Los Angeles, CA. It would be the first reports of HIV and AIDS in North America.
On this episode of This Is Why, we look back at 40 years of science around HIV/AIDS and where treatment and policy has progressed for that pandemic.
Contact:
Adam Toy - @Adam_Toy on Twitter
Dave McIvor - @d_mac1519 on Twitter
This is Why - @ThisIsWhy on Twitter
Email us - thisiswhy@globalnews.ca
Guests:
Gary Lacasse, executive director of the Canadian AIDS Society
Episode Resources:
"40 years of HIV/AIDS: a painful anniversary" in The Lancet
"Forty years on and new UNAIDS report gives evidence that we can end AIDS" from UNAIDS
20 min