HIV: 30 YEARS

June 5th will be the 30th anniversary of the first HIV diagnosis. There has been a motley assortment of news items in conjunction with this highlighted date:

HISTORY LESSON:

This is an ad for San Francisco AIDS foundation. The organization pieced this video together highlighting the disease and how the city confronted it:

MAP QUEST:

An interesting interactive data map that can pinpoint HIV-related data down to city counties (even zip codes). Wired Magazine offers:

With HIV’s 30th anniversary around the corner, a new interactive map reveals U.S. data on the disease down to individual counties and, for some cities, even zip codes. The nonprofit mapping effort, called AIDSVu, isn’t a perfect representation of the disease in the United States. The visualization is based on 2008 data, some states didn’t contribute county or demographic information that others did, and the map shows only diagnosed rates and cases. An estimated 1 in 5 HIV carriers in the U.S. are undiagnosed. Despite these limitations, it may be the most thorough geographical depiction of HIV ever created.