With crucial help from amfAR‘s Terry Beirn, Congress passes the Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects individuals with disabilities, including both people with HIV/AIDS and those suspected of being infected, from discrimination.
Surveillance data indicate that while black and Latina women constitute just 19% of all U.S. women, they represent 72% of U.S. women diagnosed with AIDS.
Domestic and international groups boycott the VI International AIDS Conference in San Francisco to protest U.S. immigration policy banning HIV-infected visitors.
In Nairobi, Kenya, amfAR conducts its first international AIDS prevention workshop.
To date, nearly twice as many Americans have died of AIDS as died in the Vietnam War.
Elizabeth Taylor and Jeanne White testify before Congress, and amfAR‘s Terry Beirn rallies support for passage of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990.
Ryan White dies of AIDS.
Keith Haring dies of AIDS.
Halston dies of AIDS.
U.S. YEAR-END STATISTICS
160,969 cases of AIDS reported to date
120,453 deaths
