* October 10 – Tens of thousands rally in Washington, D. C., calling on the government to dedicate more funding to combating HIV / AIDS and unveiling the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Amongst famous quilts in history is the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was begun in San Francisco in 1987, and is cared for by The NAMES Project Foundation.

The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt, is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to and celebration of the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes.

The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

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Each panel is 3 ' by 6 ', approximately the size of the average grave ; this connects the ideas of AIDS and death more closely, even though only about 20 % of the people lost to AIDS related causes are represented .< ref >" The AIDS Memorial Quilt.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt itself is also warehoused in Atlanta when not being displayed, and continues to grow, currently consisting of more than 48, 000 individual memorial panels ( over 94, 000 people ) and weighing an estimated 54 tons .< ref > The AIDS Memorial Quilt.

* In 1990 John Corigliano's Symphony No. 1, inspired by The AIDS Memorial Quilt, premiered in New York.

* The AIDS Memorial Quilt was mentioned and shown during the years that General Hospital held their Nurses Ball ( 1994 – 2001 ) raising money for AIDS research.

It was seemingly inevitable that The Quilt be followed by a variety of memorials and awareness projects, both AIDS-related and otherwise, that have been inspired by and modeled after The AIDS Memorial Quilt and its caretaker The NAMES Project Foundation.

** New Zealand: The New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt

* " Virtual " AIDS Memorial Quilts have also been created:

** Second Life AIDS Memorial Quilt

** Columbia University AIDS Memorial

* Southern AIDS Living Quilt

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The Quilt was last displayed in full on the Mall in Washington, D. C., in 1996, but it will return in July 2012 to coincide with the start of the XIX International AIDS Conference, 2012.

The Quilt is a memorial to and celebration of the lives of people lost to the AIDS pandemic.

The goal of the Quilt is to bring awareness to how massive the AIDS pandemic really is, and to bring support and healing to those affected by it.

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Many panels were also made for the actor Rock Hudson, one of which consisted of a navy blue background with silver " Rock Hudson " and stars, above a rainbow with the word " Hollywood ".< ref > Rock Hudson AIDS Quilt panel.

* In 1992 The AIDS Quilt Songbook, a collection of new musical works about the devastation of AIDS compiled by Lyric baritone William Parker who solicited them from composers with whom he had previously worked.

The track was later used on AIDS awareness commercials in Australia.

Chagas was also the first to unknowingly discover and illustrate the parasitic fungal genus Pneumocystis, later infamously linked to PCP ( Pneumocystis pneumonia in AIDS victims ).

The average yearly increase in opioid-related deaths from 1990-2002 was nearly three times the yearly increase from 1979 – 1990, with the greatest increase in 2000-2002, yet AIDS cases and deaths fell dramatically during the mid-to-late-1990s.

Duesberg's claim that recreational drug use, rather than HIV, was the cause of AIDS has been specifically examined and found to be false.

However, the first definitions of AIDS mentioned no cause and the first AIDS diagnoses were made before HIV was discovered.

The addition of HIV positivity to surveillance criteria as an absolutely necessary condition for case reporting occurred only in 1993, after a scientific consensus was established that HIV caused AIDS.

In 1986 Carangi was diagnosed with AIDS, which was a newly recognized disease at the time.

Her closed-casket funeral ( recommended by the funeral director due to the ravages of AIDS, which was not properly understood at the time ) was held on November 21 at a small funeral home in Philadelphia.

The following year, Harry was in Lesotho to visit again Mants ' ase Children's Home near Mohale's Hoek, which he first toured in 2004 and, along with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, launched Sentebale: The Princes ' Fund for Lesotho, a charity to aid children orphaned by HIV / AIDS.

One prominent example cited in the book was litigation over casual contact in the spread of AIDS.

He was a proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky's version of catastrophism, and of the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical use rather than HIV ( see AIDS denialism ).

The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as a masterpiece by The Source magazine.

The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as " Album of the Year " by Time Magazine.

Recently, the first strategic plan for HIV / AIDS prevention in the military was approved for 2006 – 2010.

Although " safe sex " is used by individuals to refer to protection against both pregnancy and HIV / AIDS or other STI transmissions, the term was primarily derived in response to the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

It is believed that the term of " safe sex " was used in the professional literature in 1984, in the content of a paper on the psychological effect that HIV / AIDS may have on homosexual men.

The book was entitled " Safe Sex in the Age of AIDS ", it had 88 pages and it described both positive and negative approaches to the sexual life.

Historical examples of religious individuals or institutions promoting claims that contradict both contemporary and modern scientific consensus include creationism ( see level of support for evolution ), and more recently, Pope Benedict XVI's 2009 statements claiming that the use of condoms to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa was ineffective and counterproductive.

The HIV / AIDS epidemic is a significant problem in Tanzania ; in 2009, the prevalence was estimated to be 5. 6 % of the adult population.

He questions the link between viruses and AIDS and believes that the correlation between poverty and the AIDS rate in Africa was a challenge to the viral theory of AIDS.