S1 E1: The Throwaway People: The Story of the AIDS Pandemic

Cause of Death explores disease and how it effects our society. This episode talks about AIDS, the Reagan years and how we finally overcame a pandemic.
Show Notes:
Throwaway People: How the AIDS Virus Changed the World
Show Notes for Throwaway People
For drug information
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/.../antiretroviral-drug....
https://hivinfo.nih.gov/.../what-start-choosing-hiv-regimen
For disease information
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/AIDS
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet
https://www.bcm.edu/.../emerging.../specific-agents/hiv-aids
https://www.bcm.edu/.../molecular-virology-and-microbiology
Historical Information
Parker, Richard. “The global HIV/AIDS pandemic, structural inequalities, and the politics of international health.” American journal of public health vol. 92,3 (2002): 343-6. doi:10.2105/ajph.92.3.343
Fox, Daniel M. “AIDS and the American Health Polity: The History and Prospects of a Crisis of Authority.” The Milbank Quarterly vol. 83,4 (2005): 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00432.x. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00432.x
History.com/news/aids-epidemic-ronald-reagan
Transmission Information
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood and Blood Products; Leveton LB, Sox HC Jr., Stoto MA, editors. HIV And The Blood Supply: An Analysis Of Crisis Decisionmaking. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1995. 1, Introduction. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232413/
Reagan’s 1987 speech courtesy of ABC News
http://abcn.ws/2nSPCO1
NPR interview with Urvashi Vaid
https://www.npr.org/.../critics-of-president-george-h-w...
Glossary of terms
ep·i·dem·ic
/ˌepəˈdemik/
noun
1. a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
"a flu epidemic"
pan·dem·ic
/panˈdemik/
noun
pandemic
1. (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
out·break
/ˈoutˌbrāk/
noun
noun: outbreak; plural noun: outbreaks
1. the sudden or violent start of something unwelcome, such as war, disease, etc.
"the outbreak of World War II"
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