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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I always find it interesting that a cure for HIV was found so quickly. [/b]It started as a men's health issue.  Yet, women are being forced to travel of hundreds of miles for legal abortions and absolutely horrible treatments for breast cancers and pediatric cancers. It's a man's world.[/quote]
What is this cure that you speak of?[/quote]

And you think about 15 years from the first reported cases until effective drug treatments were developed is quick?  This wasn’t a man/woman issue. It was a gay/straight issue. T[b]hose in charge in the early 80’s hated gay people and didn’t really care that they were sick and dying. [/quote]
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This isn't true. If you read "And the Band Played On," which isn't friendly to President Reagan, you'd know that the truth is a lot more complicated. Larry Kramer and others made it a mission to blame Reagan, but there were many "facts" that are reported that just aren't true. Doctors started seeing the patients with the symptoms of AIDS in 1979-80 in LA and NY, but the pattern was not identified as a separate syndrome and widely reported and named "AIDS" until 1982. The HIV virus was discovered at the National Cancer Institute (a federally-funded entity) in 1983 (& also at about the same time in France).

"The administration increased AIDS funding requests from $8 million in 1982 to $26.5 million in 1983, which Congress bumped to $44 million, a number that doubled every year thereafter during Reagan’s presidency."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/01/ronald_reagan_and_aids_correcting_the_record_122806.html

Those of us who were politically aware at the time remember how confusing the epidemic was when it was first reported.  Early on, the gay community itself was not cooperative with efforts to control transmission, as they didn't want to stigmatize gay sex. The famous example was the resistance to closing the bath houses in San Francisco.

It was a sad and scary time, but a lot of what is reported as "fact" now is just 20/20 hindsight.  [/quote]

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