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commiepinkofag · 4 months

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Dr. Gao Yaojie: Dissident doctor who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95

Her work uncovered how businesses selling blood led to the spread of HIV in the countryside.

She was at the forefront of AIDS activism in China and traveled across the country treating patients, often at her own expense.

A gynecologist by training, she encountered her first AIDS patient in the central province of Henan in 1996.

While she was not the first Chinese doctor to expose the AIDS epidemic, it was her efforts that made the situation known to the country and beyond.

She told the Associated Press in a previous interview that she withstood government pressure and persisted in her work because “everyone has the responsibility to help their own people. As a doctor, that’s my job. So it’s worth it.”

#gao yaojie #doctor #author #activist #aids activist #aids activism #aids #hiv #blood transfusion #aids epidemic #aids crisis #china #healthcare #health care #1996 #1990s #90s #2023

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magicfemme · 10 months

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"let love replace fear through you."

AIDS QUILT SERIES | VIEW THE QUILT

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whatthefluffnightvale · 1 year

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Really awesome article was published today (April 30th, 2023) about gay rodeo!!!

Please give it a read, and if anyone wants information on how to get involved: where to go watch, or even competing- just let me know. Gay rodeo has been going on since the 60s and has chapters in several states in the US, as well as in Canada. But only has a fraction of the numbers it used to, and very few younger folks.

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byler-alarmist · 3 months

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I was inspired by a great post about Nancy from @luthientinuvielss and it got me thinking about AIDS Activist Nancy Wheeler.

I've mentioned before how I headcanon Byler attending protests/joining ACT UP in the 90's after they get out of Hawkins.

But what if Nancy also became an activist in her own way?

As the post succinctly put it, Nancy is a truth-seeker who stands against injustice. She strives to be an advocate for the voiceless, the powerless and marginalized because she knows what it's like to be unheard.

I can't imagine that she would see all the deaths in the gay community (her brother and Will's community, in fact) being dismissed and forgotten and remain unfazed. She would be furious!!

Imagine her getting the scoop on the latest facts and myths about the disease, determined to shed light on the epidemic.

Interviewing the medical community and patients, breaking down the stigma surrounding the disease.

Investigating and doing exposés on politicians that stonewalled efforts to find a cure.

I can totally see her getting behind a cause like that. Plus, it could rebuild the Wheeler sibling bond, since she and Mike could find common ground on their shared passion for justice.

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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"The “Düsseldorf Patient”, a man now aged 53, is just the third person worldwide to have been completely cured of HIV via stem cell transplantation.

As in the case of the other two patients, the so-called “Berlin Patient” and “London Patient,” the transplantation was undertaken to treat an acute blood disease, which had developed in addition to the HIV infection.

The Düsseldorf Patient received a stem cell transplant used to treat leukemia in 2013 and has shown persistent suppression of HIV-1 ever since, including during the last 4 years after the patient stopped taking anti-retroviral medication.

“I still remember very well the sentence from my family doctor: ‘don’t take it so hard,'” the Düsseldorf Patient, who had leukemia as well as HIV-1, said in a statement. “‘We will experience together that HIV can be cured!’ At the time, I dismissed the statement.”

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a procedure used to treat certain cancers, such as leukemia, by transferring immature blood cells from a donor to repopulate the bone marrow of the recipient.

Scientists now understand that individuals with two copies of the Δ32 mutation in the gene for the HIV-1 co-receptor CCR5; are resistant to HIV-1 infection. The two previous cases of both the London patient and the Berlin patient involved receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with these unique mutations.

Björn-Erik Jensen, a specialist in infectious diseases at Düsseldorf University Hospital, lead the treatment and subsequent research, revealed today in a peer-reviewed study in Nature.

The patient was diagnosed as having acute myeloid leukemia and proceeded to undergo transplantation of stem cells from a female donor in 2013, followed by chemotherapy and infusions of donor lymphocytes.

After the transplantation, anti-retroviral therapy was continued, but HIV was undetectable in the patient’s blood cells. Anti-retroviral therapy was suspended in November 2018 with the patient’s informed consent, almost 6 years after the stem cell transplantation, to determine whether the virus persisted in the patient.

“I very much hope that these doctors will now get even more attention for their work,” said the patient. “I have now decided to give up some of my private life to support research fundraising. And of course, it will also stay very important for me to fight the stigmatization of HIV with my story.”

The authors conclude that although HSCT remains a high-risk procedure that is at present an option only for some people living with both HIV-1 and hematological cancers, these results may inform future strategies for achieving long-term remission of HIV-1."

-via Good News Network, 2/20/23

VERIFIED 10 YEARS ON, PROOF THAT HIV IS CURABLE

#hiv #health care #hiv aids #aids epidemic #aids crisis #lgbtq #lgbtq history #queer #queer history #hiv treatment #sex ed #medical news #medical research #good news #hope #I know he's not the first person we found cured of hiv #but as they say #three is a pattern #ANY increase in sample size at this stage is absolutely historical

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horror-thot · 2 years

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“Gay people didn’t exist in the 80’s”

Huh.

#stranger things #gay #lesbian #lgbt #robin buckley #eddie munson #will Byers #steddie #ronance #byler #steve harrington #gay rights #aids #aids epidemic

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maverickcalf · 5 months

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I think the comment about only the boring gays living through the aids epidemic really got me angry because well it's acephobic for one thing and it does dismiss the trauma of those who lived through it.

But also like the people who lived were just... i don't want to say luck but i do want to say there was most likely no rhyme or reason for it. Which is why it probably hurts a lot of people, and i don't know how after living through covid 19 you could say it is anything but!

Sure there were some people who were foolish during covid, but that's not everyone and it's just victim blaming.

It's a tragedy.

#james somerton #todd in the shadows #hbomberguy #queer #covid #aids epidemic #not to mention those who got hiv after it was treatable #those people aren't bad either

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 8 months

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You might assume that Dr. Anthony Fauci, after 54 years working at the National Institutes of Health and helping save countless lives, has retired so he can rest. However, Dr. Fauci doesn’t have time to retire.

Last month, Fauci joined Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as a Distinguished Professor. He was also appointed to the university’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

“I’ve also been busy lecturing and writing my memoir, and since I’ve been out of the NIH for seven months, I’m not following the ins and outs of the government, but I am paying attention to what’s going on with PEPFAR,” he tells me.

PEPFAR is the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which was signed into law 20 years ago this summer by President George W. Bush. It serves as a conduit to providing HIV medications to individuals in impoverished nations who would otherwise lack access to these drugs.

When I spoke to Fauci a couple years ago on the 40th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, he cited the opportunity to be the architect of the program as one of his greatest achievements. "It is the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in history," he told me. "It's been an honor to help lead this. I really value my participation in this program that has already saved 15-18 million (in 2021) lives around the world."

“PEPFAR impact has been truly remarkable,” Fauci told me during our phone call Friday evening. "It is one of this country’s greatest global health policies in history. It’s been a resounding success, and has saved at least 25 million lives worldwide and it provides antiretroviral treatments for over 20 million people worldwide.”

However, groundless claims from anti-abortion activists have put the program in jeopardy. Conservative and anti-abortion groups sent a letter to Republicans in Congress who are responsible for PEPFAR’s reauthorization. The letter said that PEPFAR funds are “used by nongovernmental organizations that promote abortions and push a radical gender ideology abroad.” They provided no evidence to back their claim.

Also, the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation released a report that said Congress needs to “reassess” PEPFAR. The report claimed, “The Biden Administration has misused the program as a well-funded vehicle to promote its domestic radical social agenda overseas, as it has done with other foreign aid programs.” This so-called report also did not provide any proof.

As a result, Republicans in Congress are threatening not to reauthorize the program.

“The idea that this program would be interrupted, despite its overwhelming success, is unfortunate,” Fauci said. “There’s a real danger to associate the program with cultural issues as opposed to scientific ones that clearly show PEPFAR is saving lives.”

“It seems paradoxical that abortion rights groups who fight for life want to interfere with a program that has saved millions of lives,” Fauci pointed out. “If the program doesn’t function, lives aren’t saved, millions of them.”

Instead of castigating the program, shouldn't these groups, as well as all Americans, be celebrating the 20th anniversary of this milestone? “What’s ironic is that it was signed into law by a conservative Republican President, and it is without question George W. Bush’s greatest achievement. It took years to put together, in a bipartisan way, and it is one of the world’s signature global health initiatives. The thought of it not being authorized is not only dangerous, but disastrous.”

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davekatzdefensesquad · 1 year

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Daily reminder that Mother Teresa was a shitty person who said that AIDS was god’s punishment to gay people for being gay and that pain brought people closer to god so she didn’t upgrade the awful conditions of her clinics.

She died with $100 million in multiple bank accounts.

Her clinics had to REUSE NEEDLES DURING THE AIDS EPIDEMIC BECAUSE OF HER. She was a glorified serial killer.

She had nuns secretly “baptize” Hindus and Muslims as they were dying while pretending to pat their heads with wet rags.

She got top notch medical care when she needed it, but again, her patients weren’t being cared for properly and she told them to their faces that they had to suffer like Jesus. She didn’t have to suffer, though. Paraphrasing this conversation between her and a dying patient:

MT: your suffering is because Jesus is kissing you.

Man suffering: can you ask him to stop kissing me?

MT: 🥰🥰🥰🥰

(she didn’t get that he was angry for what she was saying)

Not sure why she was considered a Saint but I suppose you can buy a sainthood.

#mother teresa #eject me into the sun #politics #mine #anti religion #anti catholic #anti christianity #aids epidemic #history #shitty people of history #rant #lgbt

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nalyra-dreaming · 15 days

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Do you think the show will address the Aids epidemic of the 80s? I mean, if Daniel was doing drugs and visiting gay bars in the 70s, he likely would have had a front row seat to the epidemic in the 80s. And I do seem to remember them briefly showing an article that he wrote about it.

I think so yes!

Both Daniel's "Practicum" page as his LinkedIn have texts/books referencing it!

So they did plan/are planning on addressing this.

#wendyliddel #aids #aids epidemic #daniel molloy #amc iwtv #iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire amc #iwtv amc #iwtv 2022 #interview with the vampire #practicum #linkedin

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satin-carmin · 1 year

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AIDS patients with their loved ones, 1993 (Gideon Mendel, The Ward)

#aids #hiv #lgbt history #queer history #gay history #gideon mendel #photography #black and white #b&w photography #aids epidemic #intimacy

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kingworm · 2 years

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San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus demonstrating impact of AIDS on the choir, white shirts representing members still alive (1993)

#queer #gay #queer history #aids #aids epidemic #San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus #gay men #lgbt history #post #gay history

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haveyoureadthispoem-poll · 3 months

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"Offer God anything to bring your brother back. / Know you have nothing God could possible want."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

#closed polls #polls #poetry #poems #poetry polls #poets and writing #tumblr poetry #have you read this #michael lassell #lgbt #queer poetry #hiv/aids #aids epidemic

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shewhotellsstories · 11 months

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I’m watching Howard on Disney Plus and hearing about the anger Howard Ashman felt in the wake of his diagnosis, really makes me see Belle loving the Beast in Beauty in the Beast despite his outbursts a lot differently knowing it was the last thing he ever worked on.

#howard ashman #beauty and the beast #the little mermaid #aids epidemic

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metalheadsforblacklivesmatter · 11 months

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This pride month DON'T FORGET YOUR DISABLED QUEER BRETHEREN.

WEAR YOUR MASK

During the aids epidemic conservatives didn't do shit to protect queer communities because they thought they deserved it for being sinner.

And now during the COVID epidemic they're doing the same thing to disabled people (they think God made us disabled because we're sinners, and therefore if we die of COVID we must deserve it.

In fact.

I dare say

IF YOU DON'T PUT ON A MASK TO PROTECT YOUR DISABLED QUEER SIBLINGS. YOU'RE AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO THE GAY AND TRANS ACTIVISTS THAT PROTESTED FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES FROM THE AIDS EPIDEMIC.

-fae

#pride #pride month #abelism #systemic abelism #aids epidemic

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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