Activism

The AIDS Law Project is set up in South Africa to protect the rights of those affected by HIV.

“For me, this is not politics. This is a crisis of caring.”

Brazil starts the process of buying and distributing free antiretroviral drugs.

Red ribbon is created as a symbol of HIV awareness.

“Existing statistics indicate that we are still at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in our country. Unattended, however, this will result in untold damage and suffering by the end of the century.”

- Chris Hani, then-leader of the African National Congress in South Africa

NGOs boycott the 6th International AIDS Conference in the USA due to entry laws on people living with HIV.

A Dutch man living with HIV is jailed for travelling to the USA.

"To not be open about AIDS is just ignorant, this is an epidemic. You can only stop it by talking about it-loudly, so that everybody is aware and scared, and they stop the type of behaviour that encourages the spread of this disease."
- Yoweri Museveni

President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces that his son has died of AIDS, and appeals to the international community to treat AIDS as a worldwide problem.

The AIDS memorial quilt goes on show for first time in Washington DC – a powerful visual reminder of people who have died of AIDS in the USA.