AIDS is an everyday experience. These dates represent milestones in the AIDS epidemic. Some dates are known globally; others commemorate individual experiences. AIDS Is Everyday is an ongoing art project produced in conjunction with Visual AIDS to help break down the silence, shame and stigma surrounding HIV.
Add a date about your history with HIV to our online calendar at poz.com/AIDSIsEveryday.
January
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1 — Ward 86, the world’s first dedicated outpatient AIDS clinic, opens at San Francisco General Hospital. (1983)
4 — Gay Men’s Health Crisis, now known as GMHC, becomes the first community-based AIDS service provider. (1982)
12 — President Barack Obama addresses HIV in his final State of the Union Address. “Right now, we’re on track to end the scourge of HIV/AIDS.” (2016)
16 — The Ryan White Story first airs on television. (1989)
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20 — HIV activist and UNAIDS staffer Eric Sawyer carries the Olympic flame in Calgary, Canada, as part of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. (2010)
22 — ACT UP New York activists enter the CBS Evening News studio and shout “AIDS is news. Fight AIDS, not Arabs” during the opening broadcast. (1991)
25 — The musical Rent opens at the New York Theatre Workshop, the same day Jonathan Larson, its author and composer, dies. (1996)
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27 — Doctor informs artist John Hanning that he has six months to live. He survived. (1995)
28 — President George W. Bush announces the establishment of PEPFAR to address AIDS across the globe, specifically in Africa, in his State of the Union Address. (2003)
February
4 — The International Olympic Committee rules that athletes with HIV are eligible to compete in the Games. (1992)
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7 — National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
8 — Transdisciplinary artist Dudley Saunders performs In These Boxes at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Louisiana. (2014)
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14 — National Condom Day
17 — Randy Shilts, the U.S. journalist who covered the AIDS epidemic and wrote And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, dies of an AIDS-related illness at age 42. (1994)
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24 — Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis announces on ABC’s 20/20 that he is living with HIV. (1995)
25 — We Were Here, a documentary by David Weissman, premieres at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco. (2011)
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