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Chronology of AIDS in San Francisco, 1982
January
- Syndrome is named gay-related immunodeficiency disease--GRID.
- First case of immune deficiency linked to blood products is reported in a hemophiliac.
- Helen Schietinger becomes nurse-coordinator of KS Clinic at UCSF.
- San Francisco health department makes first request for tax funds to support AIDS prevention and community services; Board of Supervisors appropriates $180,000 for AIDS programs.
March
- March 4 MMWR lists four risk groups for AIDS--homosexuals, hemophiliacs, Haitians, and IV drug users (IVDUs).
April
- Congressional subcommittee hearing in Los Angeles on AIDS, Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman.
May
- May 15 Friedman-Kien et al. publish study showing promiscuity greatest risk factor for KS. Authors support immune overload theory of AIDS causation.
- May (Mother's Day) Conant, Frank Jacobson, and Richard Keller write articles of incorporation for Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation.
June
- June 18 CDC reports cluster of PCP and KS cases in LA and Orange County, suggesting infectious agent is cause of AIDS.
- June 26 UCSF Nursing Services sponsors conference, Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia: New Phenomena among Gay Men.
July
- July 9 CDC publishes first report of 31 cases of opportunisitic infections in Haitians.
- July 13 First international symposium on AIDS, at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, sponsored by Mt. Sinai and New York University schools of medicine.
- July 16 MMWR reports first three cases of PCP in hemophiliacs, representing first cases of KSOI caused by blood or blood products.
- July 27 CDC adopts "acquired immune deficiency syndrome--AIDS" as the official name of the new disease.
- CDC, FDA, and National Hemophilia Foundation representatives meet to plan risk evaluation of blood products for hemophiliacs.
- July 21 KS Foundation begins operating a hotline for advice and referrals regarding AIDS, KS, and OIs.
August
- CDC asks blood banks not to accept high-risk donors; CDC recommends hepatitis B core antigen testing.
- August 13 National Cancer Institute [NCI] issues RFA for research on AIDS.
September
- September 24 CDC defines AIDS as disease due to defect in cell-mediated immunity occurring in people with no known cause for immune deficiency.
- September 24 First? use of term "AIDS" in a publication, in MMWR. Rapid adoption of term thereafter.
October
- October 29 UCSF Departments of Medicine and Dermatology and Cancer Research Institute sponsor extended program in medical education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Kaposi's Sarcoma. Almost 200 physicians and scientists attend.
- KS Research and Education Foundation contracts with San Francisco Department of Public Health [SFDPH] to provide AIDS education services in San Francisco.
November
- MMWR suggests that hospital staffs caring for AIDS patients use hepatitis B precautionary measures.
December
- December 1 House of Representatives votes $2.6 million to CDC for AIDS research.
- December 4 CDC presents Blood Products Advisory Committee with evidence of AIDS transmission through blood supply; no oficial action taken.
- December 10 Ammann, Cowan, Wara et al. report first case of possible transfusion AIDS, in MMWR.
- December 17 MMWR reports four cases of unexplained immune deficiency in infants.
- Shanti makes first in series of contracts with SFDPH to provide counseling services and a housing program for people with AIDS [PWAs].
- Late 1982 Most investigators convinced that AIDS is caused by an infectious agent.
- Nation's first AIDS specimen bank established in UCSF School of Dentistry, coordinated by KS Clinic.
You may send comments or inquiries about the AIDS Chronology to shughes@library.berkeley.edu.
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