Mainstream press coverage

This New York Times headline, published on 3 July 1981, marks the first mainstream press coverage of an HIV-related issue. It chronicles the diagnosis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma - “a rare and often rapidly fatal form of cancer” - in the gay community across several US cities. The article is based on information from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), released on the same day.