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Originally Posted by Scotty011
The OP could not agree to that because it would be an outright lie. Reagan years were great.  |
Yeah, we got trickle up and AIDS.
C. Everett Koop, as conservative as he was, tried over and over to get Reagan to pay attention to the AIDS problem as it started, begging him to broadcast information on how it was spread and on how to prevent it. Reagan refused for years, and in that time, AIDS got a fast toehold in America. On July 3,
1981, the
New York Times reported on cases of Kaposi's Sarcoma affecting
41 gay men in New York and California. By year-end, there is a cumulative total of
270 reported cases of severe immune deficiency among gay men, and 121 of those individuals have died.
As of
2012, CDC estimates that
1,201,100 persons aged 13 years and older are living with HIV infection, including 168,300 (14%) who are unaware of their infection.
An estimated 13,712 people with an AIDS diagnosis died in 2012, and approximately
658,507 people in the United States with an AIDS diagnosis have died overall.
In September,
1982, Congressional representatives Henry Waxman and Phillip Burton introduce legislation to allocate
$5 million to CDC for surveillance and $10 million to the National Institutes for Health for AIDS research.
The request for federal funding for HIV/AIDS for
2016 will be
31.7 billion. That's billion with a B.
Thanks, Reagan.
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