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\nThe number of people who died from AIDS since November 26, 2007:
\n17,333 [taken 2:30 PM Novmber 28, 2007]. Robert Wilson’s
\n Toplogical III<\/em> behind it. Science Center, North Yard.<\/p>\n
I was living in New York City1<\/sup> when it broke out2<\/sup>. It was “a gay disease” at the time. The wrath of God? Or act of man? In any case, it is a “gay disease” no longer. Especially not in Africa where it is much more prevalent than the U.S. The American gay community organized for the medical community to search for a cure and organized to promote safe sex practices especially in their own community. Research has not found a cure. It has found lots of things that help a little and some things that help some. The latter are quite expensive. Lives can be prolonged in America, but not in Africa. The gay activists bemoan the resurgence of AIDS in their midst. Their fellows have grown tired of being careful.<\/p>\n That’s the situation as I understand it, but then I haven’t been following the pandemic anything like carefully. Perhaps not having had a date in this Millenium has made me feel immune. Or perhaps newer shocks have pushed out the old.<\/p>\n The good news is that Harvard is gearing up to celebrate World AIDS Day. Included, the lighting of:<\/p>\n They have related events schedule for slightly more than a month. I’ll try to get links.<\/p>\n 1<\/sup>I lived on the Bowery a few steps from Delancy Street at the time, but I was homeful. I shared a loft with my college friend Beriau.<\/p>\n 2<\/sup>That is, the “official” Center for Disease Control outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The number of people who died from AIDS since November 26, 2007: 17,333 [taken 2:30 PM Novmber 28, 2007]. Robert Wilson’s Toplogical III behind it. Science Center, North Yard. I was living in New York City1 when it broke out2. It was “a gay disease” at the time. The wrath of God? Or act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"AIDS](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2006\/11\/graysribbon.jpg\")
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