How did we get AIDS?

A century of HIV/AIDS... yes, you read that right.

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“HIV Arrived in the US Long Before Patient Zero”. Donald G McNeil, Jr., New York Times, 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/he...

“Chimp To Man To History Books: The Path of AIDS”, Donald G. McNeil Jr, New York Times, 2011: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/he...

“Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago”, Craig Halperin, The Washington Post, 2012: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...

“Origins of AIDS linked to Colonial practices in Africa”, NPR, 2006: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s....

“How a typo created the scapegoat for the AIDS epidemic”, Brian D. Johnson, MacLeans, 2019: https://www.macleans.ca/culture/movie...

“AIDS: Origin of pandemic was 1920s Kinshasa”, James Gallagher, BBC News, 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-29442642

“Part One: King Leopold: The First Modern Bastard”, Behind the Bastards Podcast, iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-be...

“Part Two: King Leopold: The First Modern Bastard”, Behind the Bastards Podcast, iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-be...

“Gay Sex in the 70s”, dir. Joseph F. Lovett, Lovett Productions, 2004.

“Studio 54”, dir. Matt Tyrnauer, A&E Indie Films, 2018.

“The Reagan administration’s unbelievable response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic”, German Lopez, Vox, 2016: https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348...

“Cost of Treatment Still A Challenge For HIV Patients in the US”, All Things Considered, NPR (2012): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-s....

“Trump and Reagan’s Willful Incompetence During Epidemics”, Juan Michael Porter II, The Body, 2020: https://www.thebody.com/article/trump...

“Fire in the Blood”, dir. Dylan Mohan Gray, Sparkwater India, 2013.

“When AIDS Was Funny”, dir. Scott Calonic:    • Reagan Administration's Chilling Resp...