Ronald Reagan's Response To Aids

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Regarding the Death of Former President Ronald Reagan: A Letter to My Best Friend, Steven Powsner

Dear Steven, I so much wish you were here today to tell me what to do. You would know if it's right to comment on the death of former President Reagan, or if I should just let pass the endless paeans to his greatness. But you're not here. The... Read more »

Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report Summarizes Opinion Pieces on Reagan's Response to AIDS

AIDS advocates have said that former President Reagan, who died on Saturday, largely ignored the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic during his two terms as president in the 1980s. Although the federal government first appropriated funding for AIDS research... Read more »

Ronald Reagan Remembered: First Public Discussion of HIV/AIDS

The following press conference is the first public mention of AIDS in the Reagan White House. At that time 200 Americans had died of a new infectious disease. Reagan himself did not mention AIDS for three more years. The White House Office of the... Read more »

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Reagan: idiot or just clueless regarding AIDS

Dr. Bob,Seriously, I saw the showtime thing with Ronald Reagan the other day which depicted him as a total idiot (and I am being nice just saying it as this). And what made me angry was his reaction to how he felt about aids treatment. He totally...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Mr. G.,I still find it hard to believe CBS refused to allow that program to be seen on network television as a result of loudmouth, well-moneyed, right-wing conservatives throwing a major hissy fit! Iran Contra should have gotten him... Read more »

Bush/Reagan not the only ones with a subpar track record

Dear Dr. Bob,I have been reading your forum for a few years now, on and off. I find your approach peoples concerns about transmission very helpful and informative, and I thank you for that. I will agree that more has to be done by ALL to ensure that...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,In general, I agree with you and I, in fact did criticized Clinton for not supporting needle-exchange programs while he was President. However, it is worth noting that he was dealing with a Republican Congress that was not supportive of many... Read more »

Dr Ronald Mitsuyasu reply to gene therapy trials

Dear Dr Robert, thank you for your information to get started in gene therapy,l contacted Dr Ronald Mitsuyasu and he has told me it will be a few years before he will be starting gene therapy trials again for hiv,Dr Ronald also said in 10 years time...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi Ronnie,Thanks for the 411!Dr. Bob... Read more »

Med Reaction In Late Stage AIDS/Hemolytic Responses

Hello:Recently, after 19+ years of resisting meds and remaining stable I began Truvada plus Isentress (January 2012; infection 9/1992). I've have never had CD4 counts above 400 throughout those years, and generally they were stuck in the...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Your response is better than the average, fabulous actually. It could be a number of factors including your residual underlying immune system (and having lived for so long successfully with infection) and the virus strain. Yes, IRIS could occur, but... Read more »

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Gary Null's new absurd book on AIDS

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

A review from Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/05/21/null/print.html
Quack record
Bestselling health and fitness guru Gary Null weighs in on AIDS. Almost all of what he says is useless, dangerous and just plain wrong.

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Two responses I thought worthy of re-posting

Posted by Anonymous

Fellas fellas fellas,,,,
It's certainly time to move one. These HIV tests are very sensative. If you are infected with the HIV virus (or any virus for that matter) the human body produces anti-bodies. The body reacts. THink of it like this. If you... Read more »

Ex not being very responsible....

Posted by jtorresus, 1 Reply

I just ended a relationship of one year because my health has taken a different toll and it seemed like my ex could not deal with it. My problem is that he knew about my AIDS status from the beginning and chose not to protect himself, he claims to... Read more »

responsability

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

During my HIV scare i often thought of responsability. At first i felt like a victim. Scared, Stupid, violated. Everything was my fault. I took the decision not to have safe sex, i took the risk uneducated at that moment and the outcome would have... Read more »

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