AIDS Amendments of 1988

The Helms amendment effectively censored the large majority of publicly funded AIDS prevention literature throughout the United States, and its language was so broad that it was not just homoerotic pieces like “After the Gym” that were banned: even a mention of anal intercourse, for example, could be seen as violating ...

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129 of 1988) which was enacted as THE CONSTITUTION (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Article 326 of the Constitution provides that the elections to the House of the People and to the Legislative Assembly of every State shall be on the basis of adult suffrage, that is to say, a person ...

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In 1988, Congress passed the Health Omnibus Programs Extension (HOPE Act), which established the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to coordinate HIV and AIDS research across NIH. OAR was the first and remains the only NIH-wide office dedicated to one specific condition.

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As of December 31, 1988, 82,764 cases of AIDS in the United States and its territories had been reported to CDC. Of these cases, more than 46,000 have been fatal.

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