Posts in category: Evelyn Bailey

By Evelyn Bailey Research and treatment of a disease ultimately begin with its identification. The next task is to determine cause and then how it is transmitted. Once these are determined, and only then can you do the research to find effective treatmen ...

By Evelyn Bailey This month Shoulders to Stand On will look at the impact of AIDS on students in American schools beginning with perhaps the most well known and publicized story of one such individual student, Ryan White. This author does not recall any ...

By Evelyn Bailey The year 1986 was a pivotal year in AIDS history. Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, makes his first remarks on the AIDS epidemic. It is three-sentences long. Rock Hudson becomes the first “movie star” to come out as having ...

By Evelyn Bailey This month Shoulders To Stand On will begin looking at AIDS in Minority Communities. AIDS does not discriminate. In 1981, when Dr. Michael Gottlieb and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles alerted the Center for D ...

By Evelyn Bailey Last month we looked at ACT-UP. This organization was on the front lines working the pharmaceutical companies, federal, state and local governments and health departments to provide resources to fight AIDS. Understanding how funding for ...

By Evelyn Bailey While the government failed to respond to the epidemic, a number of non-governmental organizations were founded in the most affected areas of the USA, such as The Kaposi’s Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation in San Francisco (later ...

By Evelyn Bailey Shoulders To stand On honors the ten 2015 Rochester Shoulders Heroes for their contributions to our struggle for equality, justice and health for the Greater Rochester community inclusive of our lgbt brothers and sisters and our allies. ...

By Evelyn Bailey In January the CDC reports provisional Public Health Service interagency recommendations for the screening of donated blood for antibodies to HTLV-II/LAV, and warnings are given to the heterosexual community in the belief that AIDS poses ...