{"id":2986,"date":"2012-07-25T23:25:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T03:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2012-07-25T23:25:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T03:25:27","slug":"aids-quilt-the-early-1990s-and-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/aids-quilt-the-early-1990s-and-sadness\/2012\/07\/25\/","title":{"rendered":"AIDS Quilt, the Early 1990s, and Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The early 1990s has potentially many associations — the break-up of the Soviet Union, the first Gulf War, the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, The Lion King, Forest Gump, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, <\/em>“Smells Like Teen Spirit”,\u00a0and the cancellation of the baseball season, to name a few.<\/p>\n

But we HIV\/ID specialists will always remember that period for something else — namely, that deaths from AIDS in the United States peaked then,<\/a> making it an especially challenging time to practice.<\/p>\n

I was reminded of this during the International AIDS Conference this week\u00a0in Washington, as panels of the AIDS Quilt<\/a> are on display both in the conference center and elsewhere around the city.<\/p>\n

It seems like in every large display — which usually has 10 or so individual memorial quilts, each 3 X 6 feet — most of the deaths being acknowledged occurred in that 1990-1995 period. And the 1994 and 1995 deaths\u00a0strike me as perhaps the most poignant, because these young men and women just missed <\/em>getting lifesaving treatment.<\/p>\n

And though I didn’t know them personally, I did know Larry, and Greg, and Bryana, and Tony, and Bob, and George, and Tonya, and wish they could have lived just a bit longer. Then they’d have the chance to be saved by ritonavir, indinavir, nevirapine, etc., which were just a few short months away from being approved.<\/p>\n

There’s just something so sad about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The early 1990s has potentially many associations — the break-up of the Soviet Union, the first Gulf War, the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, The Lion King, Forest Gump, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”,\u00a0and the cancellation of the baseball season, to name a few. But we HIV\/ID specialists will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[44,49,423],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-hiv","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","tag-aids","tag-aids-quilt","tag-hiv"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}