Events featuring video, audio and photo galleries
The world’s first government-sponsored national AIDS awareness campaign – “AIDS: Don’t Die of Ignorance” – launches in the UK.
The controversial ‘Grim Reaper’ TV campaign launches in Australia.
Gay rights and treatment activist organisation ACT UP is founded in the USA.
Project SIDA launches in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) – the first and largest project on AIDS in Africa.
In San Francisco, USA, the proportion of gay men living with HIV rockets.
The world’s first needle and syringe exchange programme opens in the Netherlands, amid growing concerns about AIDS.
A number of AIDS-specific organisations are set up in the USA to help support and educate affected gay communities.
American actor Charlie Sheen announces he is living with HIV.
“I never experienced stigma from him. He was always there, until today.”
US President Barack Obama announces the end of a 22-year travel and immigration ban on people living with HIV.
