HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rock Hudson, Lymph Node, Sex Tourism
19 Feb 2017
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“Age of Aids” Documentary Notes
Part 1:
● insufficient Helper T cells
● cause completely unknown and baffling to MDs
○ symptoms: all over body lesions and spots, swollen lymph glands
● American blood supply contaminated, killed almost all people with hemophilia, public health disaster
● Haiti was a tourist destination for gays
○ within 3 years it extended through all stratums of society
● Haitians were considered a risk group and it killed the country's economy, although it was
sensationalized and unwarranted, racism
● Attempts to ban gay bathhouses, 20+ sexual partner a night, very low lights couldn't see people
● the disease came from a chimp in West Central Africa and was transferred during butchering the chimp
meat (cross species transmission, SIV vs. HIV, but it was not widespread in these communities until
they move to a large city) (pox vaccination using shared needles)
● first confirmed AIDS death: Congo, 1959
● Americans claimed credit for discovering the AIDS, but France actually did, but only sent it to them for
confirmation, out of court settlement gave them both credit
● Reagan wouldn't mention AIDS, insufficient funding for CDC
● gay activists became organized and fought for their lives, didn't help calm people's fears, pretended it
wasn't there
● Rock Hudson, actor in Pillow Talk, french trial patient (failed), first well-known person publicly diagnosed
with AIDS, died
● ignorance: police officers and bus drivers wore rubber gloves
● Hemophiliacs with AIDS faced intense discrimination, kicked out of schools, burned down homes etc.
● new Ugandan President Musevani preached tolerance for people with AIDS and educated on
transmission (Abstinence, Be Faithful To Your Partner, Condoms), positive response, rates of HIV
infection declined
● Thailand: prison drugs and heroin/needle sharing ("sharing needles meant we belonged in the same
group"),didn't care about getting infected, sex tourism. (Thai King granted amnesty to 37k prisoners,
spread to the population)
○ condom promotion for 1/2 minute of AIDS promotion on every hour of broadcast,
spread condoms to ALL known brothels
○ lack of concern for IV drug users
● Margaret Thatcher's administration worked to reduce HIV+ prevalence in drug users (56% infected), first
to establish needle exchanges
○ not possible in America with laws against selling of drug parephenelia, anti-HIV
drug activists arrested
○ condom distribution NOT supported by gov't
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Document Summary
Cause completely unknown and baffling to mds insufficient helper t cells. Symptoms: all over body lesions and spots, swollen lymph glands. American blood supply contaminated, killed almost all people with hemophilia, public health disaster. Haiti was a tourist destination for gays. Haitians were considered a risk group and it killed the country"s economy, although it was. Within 3 years it extended through all stratums of society sensationalized and unwarranted, racism. Americans claimed credit for discovering the aids, but france actually did, but only sent it to them for confirmation, out of court settlement gave them both credit. Reagan wouldn"t mention aids, insufficient funding for cdc. Gay activists became organized and fought for their lives, didn"t help calm people"s fears, pretended it wasn"t there. Rock hudson, actor in pillow talk, french trial patient (failed), first well-known person publicly diagnosed with aids, died ignorance: police officers and bus drivers wore rubber gloves.
