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9. Aug. 2021 · In 1980, Ken Horne, a gay sex worker in San Francisco, California, became the first person to be diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States. 2 A year later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report described five cases of Pneumocystis ...
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A timeline of HIV/AIDS history from 1908 to 2019, created by artist Carlos Motta and journalist Ari Shapiro. Ken Horne, a San Francisco resident, is the first recognized case of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. in 1980.
24. Apr. 2019 · Ken Horne of San Francisco was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1981, marking the beginning of the epidemic. The Gayly reports on his history, the progress of HIV treatment and prevention, and the challenges of living with the virus.
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Early 20th Century - At some point in the first few decades of the 20thcentury, Simian Immunodeficiency Virus makes the jump from chimpanzees to humans in Central Africa. Now known as the subtype HIV-1, the virus begins circulating in Léopoldville, now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—believed to be the first zoonotic transmission o...
April 24 – The CDC receives a report on Ken Horne, a gay man living in San Francisco who is suffering from Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a rare and unusually aggressive cancer linked with weakened immunity. Horne dies on November 30, 1981. The same year, the CDC retroactively identifies Horne as the first American patient of the AIDS epidemic.
May 18 –Lawrence Mass, a gay doctor in New York City, writes an article for The New York Native, an LGBT newspaper, titled “Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded.” Although the headline would soon be proven false, his report that a number of gay men have been admitted to New York City intensive care unites with severely compromised immune systems is the...
May 11 – In an article titled “New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials,” the New York Times first publishes the phrase Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, or GRID, contributing to the widespread misconception that AIDS only affects gay men. September 24– The CDC uses the term “AIDS” for the first time. It defines Acquired Immune Deficiency Synd...
January 1– Ward 86, the world’s first dedicated outpatient clinic for people with AIDS, opens at San Francisco General Hospital. The clinic develops the San Francisco Model of Care, a holistic approach that focuses not only on medical care but also on making patients comfortable, providing them with resources they need to deal with the many challen...
March 1 – A study in the American Journal of Medicineexamines a cluster of 40 patients with KS and other opportunistic illnesses, tracing their sexual contacts. It describes an unidentified flight attendant, “Patient O” (the O standing for “outside Southern California,” where the study was focused), who was known to have hundreds of sexual partners...
March 2 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration licenses the first blood test for HIV, and blood banks begin screening the country’s blood supply. April 22 – The Normal Heart, an autobiographical play about the early days of the crisis by Larry Kramer, opens off-Broadway. July 25 – Rock Hudson, a legendary actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood who...
January 16 – The CDC reports that 1985 saw an 89 percent increase in AIDS diagnoses from 1984, and predicts that the number will double in 1986. May 1 – The International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses officially gives the name Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, to the virus that causes AIDS. July 18 – A group of minority community leaders...
February – Cleve Jones creates the first panel of the AIDS Memorial Quiltin honor of his friend Marvin Feldman, who died of an AIDS-related illness the previous October. Jones makes the panel three feet by six feet, the standard size of a grave plot, intending it and subsequent panels to serve as a way of remembering, grieving and celebrating the l...
May 26 – The Surgeon General releases the nation's first coordinated HIV/AIDS education strategy, mailing out 107 million copies of a pamphlet titled Understanding AIDS in an attempt to reach every household in America, the largest public mailing in history. November 4 –PresidentReagan signs the first comprehensive federal AIDS bill, the Health Omn...
Learn about the origins, spread and response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and the world. Ken Horne, a gay man who died in 1981, was the first American patient of the AIDS epidemic, according to the CDC.
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Ken Horne was a gay man who died of Kaposi's Sarcoma in 1981. The CDC later identified him as the first American case of AIDS, a disease caused by HIV infection.
Kenneth William Horne (25 June 1926 – 3 September 2015) was an English professional footballer and coach, best remembered for his 11 years in the Football League with Brentford, for whom he made over 220 appearances. He was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2015.
