Factors that helped shift public perception and the public health response to AIDS during the 1980s

When HIV/AIDS became a pandemic in the early 1980’s, the popular perception of sufferers included blame, shunning, and fear. while the medical/scientific community worked to identify the causative agent and to change public percetions, such change only came slowly. Analyze 3 factors that helped shift public perception and the public health response to AIDS during the 1980s