Looking Back On 40 Years Of The AIDS Epidemic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Since June 1981, AIDS has claimed more than 700,000 lives in the U.S. and today more than 1.1 million people in America are living with HIV. As TODAY kicks off its observance of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, men living with HIV share their perspectives with NBC New Now anchor Joe Fryer.
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Rest in peace Darren my cousin whom passed away in 1993 😢💔🌹. God bless the survivors of the epidemic it was a terrible time in history. If you are of a certain age AIDS has affected you in one way or another. Thanks for sharing this 🙏🏾
I am sorry for your loss. Sending you a virtual hug from me in 🇬🇧❣️❣️.
As a 30 year survivor of HIV myself, I never take for granted the life I've been able to live. Most of my friends died in the 80s and I still feel survivor guilt. I try not to complain about trivial things because my friends wanted to live to experience what I have. I'm 30 years HIV but I've never had AIDS. I have lived to see 56 after being diagnosed at 26. I promise to always remember those who lost the good fight.
Sending you my love and a virtual hug from me in 🇬🇧.❣️❣️❣️
Hope you’re doing well 🤍
I am so glad you’re here and you’re alive
I'm watching a series called Fellow Traveller and it has something to do with aid's, so that's why I came to see this video, it must have been really difficult back in those days, poor people 😢
Back in 1981, several years before my birth in 1990, my mother began her job as an ICU nurse and her very first patients were the folks who actually got AIDS. And just like how she struggled with COVID-19 patients last year, she and her workers didn’t know how to treat AIDS nor figure out how to cure it due to the fact that there was no actual cure.
Still no cure.
@@jackbrown4120 HIV is weird in how it reproduces. essentially its RNA becomes DNA inside the host cell. The opposite can also happen.
It is sad that people in the 80’s didn’t have the chance to live and survive with that disease
There needs to be a 24 hour HIV/AIDS cable channel or streaming platform dedicated to HIV/AIDS awareness, current medical updated (possible vaccines & functional/sterilizing cure), and HIV/AIDS based movies and television series.
YESSSS ❣️
Sadly most of the adults from that time are dead and all that left are the kids that only like to complain about kids thess days
a thousand yes’s 💯💯💯
TH-cam!🙂
RIP Ryan White and all affected by HIV & AIDS
and Freddie Mercury, Tom Fogerty, and Dan Hartman.
R.I.p to eazy e
And Alvin Ailey and also Gary from the Jabbawokeez
RIP Liberace 1919-1987 🪻
I really wish when stories about HIV are done, that they show the horrific affects of lipodystrophy which affected many of us when the first med cocktails came out. So tired of seeing beautiful people talk about HIV which has, for others like me, been so devastating over the last 25 years.
Don B,
I remember the early days. I will not forget , neither will my children.
God bless you my friend and may God bring you and those you love peace and strength in mind, body , and soul.☺️
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Does yhe new medication do that still ? I think the reason they show healthy looking people is so that other people won't be scared to get tested and get on medication, possibly becoming undetectable. They want people to have hope they can live normal lives . They should show those things from a history standpoint. I'm sorry that happened.
I often feel that if the images of COVID had been a gruesome as AIDS was, no one would be hesitating about a vaccine...
The new medications today do not cause physical changes. While lypodistrophy is a harsh reality of the first HIV cocktail, lives were saved. Today there is little to no muscle or facial wasting, no fat redistribution or side effects. I do recall being in the bars around NY and Philly back then and it was very obvious in 1995 when those with HIV took the medications because of the physical changes. Today's medicine is way more improved, but at least lives were saved.
40 years of Aids gets 6 minutes but Jenna Bush skydiving gets 7 minutes and desserts you can make with old bananas got 24 minutes. Thanks NBC!
Thanks for calling this out.
what are you talking about
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@@GiordanDiodato good question
But that’s all they need to clear the story man.
Man I remember when this epidemic first started; I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like for the gentleman who contracted it back then. My heart goes out to these men.❤️
I remember visiting The Castro in San Francisco in 1996 and it was a ghost town. I didn't realize for a couple years that it was because everyone died. The stigma is brutal and embarrassing. Where's the cure?
The stigma is emotional
I heard recently that it is very hard to find a cure for AIDS because of how quickly it replicates and adapts.
@@theandyrichter2868 that and it can change its DNA to RNA and vice versa, meaning that drug resistant strains are very easy to make.
It’s strange to me that they came up with a vaccine for Covid-19 so fast and yet, 40 years later, there’s still no vaccine for HIV. Hmmm.🤔
@@danityvanityinsanity AIDS isn't Covid. It acts completely different and is harder to create a cure because of how it replicates.
Today I know someone who found out they have HIV from a woman he slept with, I told him he can live, just take care of your self and take the meds. It’s not a death sentence like it used to be but I’m grateful to have the knowledge about it to know I don’t have to alienate someone. Stay strong to those. ❤❤❤
The only honest and true Doctor that has the cure for HIV diseases Dr. Egobe TH-cam channel, I’m a living testimony of his medicine.
I’m watching this after watching “It’s a sin” on Netflix. It’s heartbreaking what these young men went through in the 80s and 90s to watch people dying all around you in your community and it being so hushed like it was in the UK back then. The trauma must be like witnessing a war! My heart goes out to all those young boys in the early days of HIV/AIDS and God bless those who fought the fight against it with them. I’m glad the future is brighter today.
I just googled 80s epidemic after watching that!! Omg movie made me cry so much😢
If your undetected you still need to tell your partner that you have HIV and wear protection every time.
You sound very patronizing. You think they don’t know that?
I agree
Their partners can take PrEP which would stop them getting the virus. They can’t not pass it in if they are taking their meds as the virus in undetectable in the blood therefore it’s un transmissible
@@MissJadeKennedy who cares, they can be undetectable and still use a condom and take prep as well.
@@lovealways7861 didn’t say they can’t!!
The history behind this is very interesting
Always
progress is slow because Reagan denied it existed.
I was 14 years old in 1981
And I still remember when all this began
i was 4 and a half years old in June 1981 and I'm 46 and a half now. 42 years I've lived with AIDS. I wish there was a cure and for cancer and gonorrhoea as well.
How did you get it at four?
Probably blood transfer
I remember being 15 in nyc and it was ignored a lot even in discussions, it was such a scary time for so many. Looking back all I can do is Cry.
*People with HIV have a substantially HIGHER RISK OF CANCERS compared with uninfected people, up 500x increase. Yes, it's true that people with HIV are living longer but their immune systems does not get fully healthy. As people with HIV live longer, their chances of having other health problems, like cancer, increase.* Why do they always down play serious medical illness? Not dying of AIDS is an improvement not an achievement.
I WAS THERE; NYC in the 1980s, SF in the 1990s. NO WORDS .....
I went to so many funerals I just can’t stop crying about my friends dying
❤❤❤💔
Freddy, I'm so sorry. What a heartbreak.
HIV positive right here 💚 keep your head up all💙
Brings back memories of my wife and I volunteering with our local A.I.D.S group, where we assembled care packages to be handed out to P.R.I.D.E celebrants.
Herbal treatment is 100% guarantee for HIV cure, the reason why most people are finding it difficult to cure HIV is because they believe on medical report, drugs and medical treatment which is not helpful to cure HIV.
Natural roots/herbs, are the best remedy which can easily eradicate HIV cure, Please write Dr. Idialu for any types of health challenges reply my. Testimony, for directionality
@@leticialopez6820 except that is helpful. It shows what drugs work and what drugs don't work.
your "herbal treatment" does not have any kind of statistical data backing it up.
@@leticialopez6820Wow, I seriously hope nobody ever takes your completely false, irresponsible and deadly advice. How can you even type those words? Powerful antiretrovirals have, do and will continue to help people diagnosed with HIV. Plus, HIV prophylaxis medicines are becoming increasingly more common thankfully. I take prep myself and encourage other msm to do the same. Herbal treatment is not the cure for HIV. Stop spreading misinformation.
We need more education
And less prejudice too.
Sending everyone who suffering from HIV / AIDS my love ❣️❣️❣️
40 years ago. I was just 5 years old. But I do remember my mothers close friend who was one of her patients being treated in the department of Neurosurgery had a brain tumor as a result of his diagnosis later passed away at the age of 34 years of age.
We are in the same spot today. The medicines available to wealthy nations for HIV and Covid-19 have not reached countries with smaller economies. Is there a lesson to learn? Yes stop being so self-centered and realize the world is much bigger than the USA.
My grandfather daughter died from aids in 04
Stigma & discrimination is still so bad - people can be so ignorant
HAPPY WORLD AIDS DAY - WED, DEC 1, NEVER FORGET. SEE YOU IN HEAVEN, 31 YEARS.....GOD BLESS EVERYONE. JEFF
Thank you for these perspectives and insights.
Fick that. Undetectable. Disclose and wear protection.
Bs
Only those that lived through the mid eighties would truly know the full fear of AIDS. God bless us all, those we have lost, and those who are living a healthy life style due to Medical advancement. Amen.
So sad since June 1981 so many people died of aids. 700,000 lives taken due to AIDS! There maybe alot more people now we have so many people dying all over again with COVID-19 and its still around since 2020-2024. RIP to those who died of AIDS and were treated badly.
remember act up they fo0ught hard to make meds affordable and redily availble to hiv aids patients.
This is beautiful.
So, they can make it undetectable but not cure it.. I don’t get it.
The virus can store its genetic information in cells of the body it infects which gets expressed when medication is stopped.
Yes so essentially we can’t cure the virus but we can increase cell count with medication so it’s almost like there is no virus. They will have to take meds for life though
It should be on TV more I’ve lost 3 great men friends they all went to Thailand were they contracted it
Thank God for modern medicine!❤
The greatest tragedy of the 20th century- that’s what Madonna called it and she was right 😢
They are back trying to raise up funds for the age charity which is a good thing here in America hopefully please start donating and sending pledges
Bruce is a Saint.
Freddy if only you would’ve held on a bit longer ❤
One of the greatest.
It's rebuilding your immune system back to normal
are you joking?
it kills off your T helper cells, which are important to long-term immunity
NEVER GONNA HAPPEN WITH HIV
I heard it got here in the rear end of a hudson sorry rock
In nursing school this is exactly what it is
Come back stronger guys
The only honest and true Doctor that has the cure for HIV diseases Dr. Egobe TH-cam channel, I’m a living testimony of his medicine.
Idk if I would trust that it's not transferred if you take the medicine, what happens if you forget to take it?
you take a turn for the worse and the virus can become drug resistant.
Reagan ignoring the pandemic until 1987 was inexcusable.
Even when everyone thought there is no cure, I'm still surprised how
your medicine cured me DR KANAYO PETERSON. I just pray you stay safe out there everyday because the HIV patients needs you more than ever. Thank you for coming to my aid, you're a great doctor.
Dr Fauci was a young doctor then
@Hispanic Causin' Panic *then
@@MacDefault LOL
Hispanic causing panic you can’t recover from that one man. Go home and get educated
Fauci was The Go To Guy in The Early Days of HIV, I wonder if he created that too?
Tommy morrison says hi.
You have been much more to me than just a doctor. You have been my therapist,supporter, friend,well wishers and angel in disguise.Thank you so much Dr emuakhe for all you've done for me,you totally restored back my health...........
Wait so how did children get it?
From infected blood transfusions if they were born with hemophilia, or from some other type of contact.
HIV women can pass it to their children during pregnancy and or birth and even breastfeeding. Also blood transfusions, which is rare these days since they screen donors before accepting blood.
Bro did u not watch the video?
in very early 80's all was done only for whites I did see many of my Asians friends pass away w out any help in San Francisco they did not have papers illegals no insurance and more that was so sad I'm still here 65 now but most of my friends pass it made me stronger but it was a nightmare in San Francisco it took time for all colors gays to be help !!!!!! white first !!
little was done because of Reagan denying it existed
ADIS country US Europe Australia World Dangerous signs.
The only honest and true Doctor that has the cure for HIV diseases Dr. Egobe TH-cam channel, I’m a living testimony of his medicine.
Aids somehow transferred from monkeys to humans.Gain of function is starting to sound more interesting.
that's how the first cases started.
There's a similar virus called SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) and it's likely that through natural selection it was able to become HIV.
@@GiordanDiodato Like I said, the development of Aids and it's transfer from nature to humans makes the man made process Gain of Function sound more interesting since that's exactly what that bio-technology is capable of doing.
@@MrMelgibstein yes, but that's not how AIDS came to be.
@@GiordanDiodato With Gain of Function on the table ,you never know.
tragedia mondiale
There but for the grace of God go i. I was an adult just barely when aids hit. I thank God i never caught it. But i know 3 people personally who did.
Even when everyone thought there is no cure, I'm still surprised how your medicine cured me DR GBOKO. I just pray you stay safe out there everyday because the HIV patients needs you more than ever. Thank you for coming to my aid, you're a great doctor Dr Gboko
Im happy because stigma still in people HIV positive
3:39 who ever told you that is LYING
africa was hit very hardest by AIDs
Anything that kills is not love.
Anything that hurts is not love.
Anything that lies, cheats and steals is not love.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
The only honest and true Doctor that has the cure for HIV diseases Dr. Egobe TH-cam channel, I’m a living testimony of his medicine.
liars it was created
Omg Antony fauci ... Seems dodgy
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Man made
What we did too Eve...
what ?
Thanks to the gays
Foolish
Bigot
So nasty
I'm sorry for being the one that did
GFY
Covid is worse 💁♀️
True
Not even close
40 yrs from now when another pandemic happens that generations will say and feel the same way about it.
No way is covid worse........yes we have lost a lot of people due to it........but AIDS it was the stigma around the whole epidemic and how gays were treated and left to die. How the US GOVERNMENT didn't act quick enough and so many people lost their lives. At least with covid the world acted much quicker
40 million dead from AIDS…
If someone said i have hiv but am undetectable..... yeah thats a risk im not taking. God bless