HIV part 1

1997

2001

Intro to HIV, AIDS, and the immune system

Timeline

• 1981 Gay Cancer • 1982 Haitians Hemophyliacs • 1983 AIDS Prejudice • 1984 Virus • 1985 Rock Hudson, Saliva OK • 1986 T-Cells AZT
• 1987 Reagan• 1988 Macrophages • 1989 • 1990 Ryan White, Condoms in School• 1991 Sex Drugs & Aids, Magic Johnson
• 1992 Arthur Ashe• 1993 Needles, AZT resistance• 1994 • 1995 #1 killer of young adults• 1996 • 1997 CCR5, Cocktails
• 1998 Death Rates, Plunge Cocktail Side Effects • 1999 • 2000 China• 2001 Free care in Botswana

early history
conspiracy theories

Brazil's Apporach

A graphic of HIV	HIV escaping a helper T cell from Scientific American
the course of infection	cells alive shows stages of infection of a cell and points of drug sensitivity

NOVA

The film below is a very good explanation of the process of infection:

Glaxo-Welcome video

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Progression to AIDS

The virus begins attacking macrophages but switches to the helper T-cells

progression of infectionsfrom UCSF

• Paul Reisberg preisberg@wellesley.edu
• Chemistry Department
• Date Created: August 14, 1997
• Last Modified: March 8, 1999
• Expires: August 30, 2000