JULY
9 – Drug manufacturer Roche sends an email to HIV treatment activists announcing that it is terminating its in-house research into new HIV drugs. (2008)
13 – With the signing of HB20-1061, Colorado becomes the first state to allow pharmacists to prescribe pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP) to prevent HIV. (2020)
![illustration US Map with pill](https://cdn3.poz.com/137794_map-pill.jpg_25503a45-b775-4678-8237-da6d71abe829.jpg)
27 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, a French virologist who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for codiscovering HIV in 1983, becomes the new president of the International AIDS Society. (2012)
![Françoise Barré-Sinoussi](https://cdn1.poz.com/137795_Untitled-1.jpg_abdea25a-053f-459e-9afd-f5735d332204.jpg)
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
AUGUST
2 – Christodora, a novel by Tim Murphy about a group of characters whose lives are connected by HIV and an apartment building in New York City’s East Village, is released. (2016)
![Christodora book cover](https://cdn1.poz.com/137796_P07-23-016.jpg_31dcebeb-eb4e-4bb5-ae94-bfba1773d005.jpg)
6 – Performer Klaus Nomi dies of AIDS-related causes at age 39. (1983)
![Klaus Nomi](https://cdn1.poz.com/137797_P07-23-014.jpg_ce210710-e3b4-474c-b3c2-ae80d2766cab.jpg)
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20 – Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
![Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day logo](https://cdn.poz.com/137798_Southern-HIV-AIDS.jpg_dd9d4f28-80da-44a9-8992-3b7a0329494d.jpg)
27 – National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
![Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day logo](https://cdn1.poz.com/137799_Faith-HIV-AIDS.jpg_d4a62d2a-e749-497e-a4b5-254507ed463b.jpg)
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