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6-15-1996

In the Affirmative, Vol.3, No.3 (Mid-June/Mid-July 1996)

Mick Martin

The AIDS Project

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A NEWSLETTER FOR NlAINE'S HIV/AIDS COMMUNITY e PAGE ONE Officially AIDS in the USA is 15 years old, though we know it's older. Included: The AIDS limeline. FROM GRID TO AIDS, e PAGE TWO By The Woy, by Mike Mortin, soys ' It 's a ll about hope.' Newsbriefs: Water, water everywhere, 15 YEARS OF HIV IN THE U.S. but should you drink it? Fifteen years ago, on June 5, 1981, the AIDS epidemic officially began e PAGE THREE when federal health officials reported a strange outbreak of disease among HIV News, compiled by Mike Mortin. . At first labelled GRID (Gay Related lmmmune Deficiency}, within a A look al oral sex, oral testing, a new year it is renamed AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome}. vira l load test a nd protease inhibitors. More than 500,00 in the United States have been diagnosed with the Newsbriefs: The Supreme Court takes virus and more than 300,000 have died since the beginning of the a stand on anti-gay legislation. And the President signs a five year extension to epidemic. Still, there is a growing knowledge of the virus and there are AIDS funding. many more treatment options available to fight the virus and the opportunistic infections that strike people with the virus. Where it was once e PAGE FOUR common for doctors to prognose an 18-month life-expectancy, it is now Meet some of the Stoff Members and known that it can take ten or more years for symptoms to appear. Boord of Directors of The AIDS Project. The list of drugs now available to fight the virus and the varying Newsbriefs: The home HIV lest is coming. And a comment on safer sex combinations used provide more hope for warding off the onset of and cruising. symptoms and possibly prolonging life. It is a far cry from the days of Air in high doses as the only therapy available. e PAGE FIVE So fifteen years later, we know more, can do more, and continue to Toke Note: It's a free for all with our .______.. learn about the virus that has affected and will affect the world for years. listing of things you might like, for free. Plus other announcements. THE AIDS TIMELINE (from USA Today's Kim Painter 6/5/96) The AIDS Update in the U.S. , Moine • 1981: As reports of unusual cancers and infections among gay and through the years. men come in, th e CDC coins a temporary and, ultimately, misleading Newsbriefs: Some tiny microbes ore name: gay related immune deficiency. laying havoc around the world. AIDS is • 1982: The new disease seems to spread through sex and blood. just one of them. Officials rename it acquired immune deficiency syndrome - AIDS. • 1983: Health officials declare AIDS the USA's No. 1 health priority e PAGE SIX as the U. S. death to ll posses 1,000. O ur Feature Story: Amanda Sewell on • 1984: American scientist Robert Gallo announces that he has Maine's HIV Advisory Commitee and discovered the AIDS virus. French scientist also lay claim to the virus, the work it does. later dubbed human immunodeficiency virus - HIV Newsbriefs: HIV and I.V. Drug Users • 1985: An HIV antibody test is approved, greatly reducing the risk of and other infection trends. Also, the getting