Address Presented to the Annual Meeting of the National School Boards Association, San Francisco, California

Address Presented to the Annual Meeting of the National School Boards Association, San Francisco, California

Contributor(s):
Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
Publication:
Produced: 4 April 1987
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Health Education
Primary Prevention
Sex Education
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Speeches
Abstract:
Because of its association with homosexuality and intravenous drug use, AIDS became enmeshed in the moral politics of the conservative Reagan administration, which did not take a stand on the epidemic for more than five years after it was first detected in North America in 1981. President Ronald Reagan himself did not mention AIDS until April 1, 1987, when he touched on it briefly in a speech in Philadelphia. Throughout the Reagan years, Koop was the only prominent federal official to speak out on AIDS consistently and in unflinching detail.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
32 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584930X92 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
QQBBGM
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X92
Archival Collection:
The C. Everett Koop Papers (Profiles in Science)