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Chronology of AIDS in San Francisco, 1981
February
- Drew et al. document prevalence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in homosexuals.
- Michael Gottlieb, UCLA, diagnoses Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in two homosexuals.
March
- Gottlieb diagnoses another case of PCP in a homosexual.
- Sandra Ford, drug technician for Centers for Disease Control (CDC), officially notes increase in requests for pentamidine, for treatment of PCP.
- Constance Wofsy diagnoses CNS toxoplasmosis in a gay patient at SFGH.
April
- Gottlieb diagnoses two more cases of PCP in homosexuals.
- Two Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) cases in San Francisco and Stanford announced at UCSF dermatology grand rounds.
May/June
- Donald Abrams sees cases of PCP in gay men at SFGH.
June
- June 6 CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) publishes Gottlieb and Wayne Sandera's report on PCP in five gay men.
- June 8 First meeting of CDC Kaposi's Ssarcoma/Opportunistic Infection (KSOI) Task Force, headed by James Curran. Its purpose is to characterize the syndrome and determine the frequency, risk and etiology.
- CDC initiates surveillance and case file for KS and PCP.
- In late June the first case of KS diagnosed in gay men at SFGH.
July
- July 3 First Press report of syndrome appears in New York Times.
- July 3 MMWR reports Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and PCP in twenty-six gay men.
- July 13 First article on AIDS in New York Native.
- City of San Francisco establishes reporting and case registry system for KSOI.
August
- August 28 MMWR reports first heterosexuals, including the first female, with KSOI.
- CDC requires health departments to notify CDC of all KSOI cases.
September
- September 15 CDC and National Cancer Instititute sponsor a workshop on KS and opportunistic infections (OI). CMV leading candidate for cause.
- September 21 First KS Clinic held at UCSF.
- CDC begins case-control study with 50 gay KSOI patients and 120 "healthy" gay controls to determine factors in homosexual environment possibly causing KSOI.
October
- Friedman-Kien et al. begin study of clinical course of KS in gay men.
November
- Shanti begins to focus on psychosocial problems on people with KSOI.
December
- December 9 Marcus Conant passes out flyers on KS at American Academy of Dermatology meeting in San Francisco.
- December 10 Durack at Duke suggests amyl nitrites ("poppers") might cause immune dysfunction.
- December 10 New England Journal of Medicine article links immune deficiency to T4 helper cell/T8 suppressor cell ratio.
- First clinical descriptions of immunosuppression in IV drug users.
- John Ziegler, Conant, and Paul Volberding receive $50,000 from American Cancer Society to support KS Clinic at UCSF; first grant awarded for AIDS.
- CDC investigators suspect that causal agent of AIDS is infectious but cannot provide irrefutable evidence. Others support the "lifestyle" hypothesis.
- President Ronald Reagan proposes massive cuts in the CDC budget.
You may send comments or inquiries about the AIDS Chronology to shughes@library.berkeley.edu.
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