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Washington (AFP) - Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS. It would go on to claim millions of lives across the world. Here is a look at the discovery and the fight against the deadly condition. 1981: First alertIn June 1981 US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in gay men from California, some of whom have died. Unusual versions of skin cancer are identified in others. It is the first alert about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), still unknown and unnamed. Doctors i...
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Washington (AFP) - Dedra Spears Johnson was working as a social worker in a suburb of the US capital Washington at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, when she concluded Black women's needs weren't being met by efforts to fight the disease. Highly effective medications had recently been approved, but the people around her were hitting economic barriers and cultural taboos that prevented access. "There's a shame about feeling they have this dirty disease," Spears Johnson -- who in 1999 co-founded a nonprofit group called Heart to Hand Inc to broaden access to testing, treatments a...
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