print email comment close In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS URL: http://history.nih.gov/NIHInOwnWords/ Description: This site describes the scientific community's first encounters with AIDS and its initial searches for treatments. It also provides audio files and transcripts of National Institute of Health (NIH) researchers' early recollections, document and image archives, and related links. The timeline runs from June 1981, with the first article about AIDS in medical literature, to the disease's eventual recognition by the U.S. administration and the first World AIDS Day in the late 1980s. Publisher: United States. National Institute of Health (NIH) Library of Congress Subject Headings: AIDS (Disease) HIV (Viruses) -- Research -- History LII classic content LII Database Information: Record 238 created by Dana Lubow on 06/27/2001 Last modification on 09/29/2009 Published: 06/27/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/238