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Chronology of AIDS in San Francisco, 1987
January
- Abbott introduces improved anti-HIV antibody test.
March
- March 31 Reagan and Jacques Chirac announce settlement of Gallo/Montagnier dispute. Department of Health and Human Services and Pasteur Institute sign agreement: French will abandon suit vs. Gallo; Americans will add Montagnier to patent on AIDS diagnostic kit.
- FDA approves Burroughs Wellcome's AZT.
- AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) founded.
May
- May 22 FDA creates category of experimental drugs, Treatment Investigational New Drugs, allowing drugs for life-threatening diseases to be sold after Phase I trials. AZT distributed as TIND.
- May 31 Reagan gives first speech specifically on AIDS.
July
- IMBB begins to offer HIV antibody testing and counseling to physicians for their patients.
September
- September 28 California law passed giving California Department of Health Services power to test, manufacture, and distribute experimental AIDS drugs that FDA has not approved.
November
- Personnel in contact with blood at blood centers required to wear gloves.
- CDC expands AIDS surveillance definition, adding conditions appearing in AIDS-infected children, AIDS dementia, wasting syndrome, and certain lymphomas.
- Reagan announces mandatory AIDS testing of immigrants, prisoners, patients, against advice of USPHS.
- Massive quilt memoralizes AIDS victims nationwide.
- Jesse Helms introduces amendment adding AIDS to excludable diseases for potential U.S. immigrants.
- Third International Conference on AIDS, Washington, DC; politics enters conference.
You may send comments or inquiries about the AIDS Chronology to shughes@library.berkeley.edu.
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