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Table of Contents
 

Precious Stone

More Than Just a Number




Dodging Danger

Northern Disclosure

Ask For It By Name

Learning Latex

Yule Love ’Em

Catch of the Month

Cash Therapy

A Wealth of Trouble

Think Inside the Box

Baby Bonus

New Resistance Fighters




African in America

Windy City Blues

Unfine China

It’s a Wrap

Hot Dates-December 2007

Wake Up, India

Survey Says...

Clean Sweep

Look Elsewhere

Yesterday Once More

A Day Without “Day Without Art”

Medicine Man

Suspicious Minds




Editor's Letter-December 2007

Mailbox-December 2007



 
What You're Talking About
House of Numbers, An AIDS Documentary (blog) (104)

Help Develop a National AIDS Strategy (46)

How Stigma Kills (21)

Obama Lifts HIV Travel Ban (16)

Positive Man Charged Under Anti-Terrorism Laws in Michigan Assault Case (8)
Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Shingles

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)

What is AIDS & HIV?

Hepatitis & HIV


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December 2007


Look Elsewhere

by Bob Ickes

Twenty-four years ago this month, the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) aired a doozy of a Christmas episode: “AIDS and Comfort.” Broadcast on December 21, 1983, it became the first in TV history to address AIDS—four months before HIV was even identified. The show followed a fictional Boston city councilman who may have contracted the mysterious pathogen either from a blood transfusion or unprotected sex. It set a standard for sensitivity and intelligence often lacking in prime time’s subsequent takes. Michael Brandon, who played the councilman, says, “Everyone said I was committing career suicide. Ten years later, Tom Hanks won an Oscar for Philadelphia—and they called me a trailblazer.”     


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