(Image source: NPR) “When my doctor indicated to me in December of 1981 that I was immune deficient I said, “What does that mean?” And he said, “We don’t know.” “The effect of being told that I was immune deficient was devastating. I called my parents and said “I am going to die.” (Two statements … Continue reading AIDS and the “high-risk” group. →
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All the Lies We Cannot See: Operation Infektion and HIV/AIDS in the Soviet Union
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•In the early 1980s, the HIV/AIDS virus emerged and spread with quick and deadly force. Throughout the decade and into the 1990s, those infected (often part of socially-ostracized groups) fought for their lives in the face a seemingly indifferent government, a willfully-blind public, and slow-moving pharmaceutical companies. However, in the midst of the chaos caused […]