page_title: Timeline of HIV/AIDS
section_title: 1990s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of HIV/AIDS / 1990s
caption_attribution_description: English: This photo of Ryan White was taken by me (Wildhartlivie) in the spring of 1989 at a fund raising event in Indianapolis, Indiana.
context_page_description: This is a timeline of AIDS, including AIDS cases before 1980.
context_section_description: 1990
  January 6, British actor Ian Charleson dies from AIDS at the age of 40 — the first show-business death in the United Kingdom openly attributed to complications from AIDS.
  February 16, New York artist and social activist Keith Haring dies from AIDS-related illness.
  April 8, Ryan White dies at the age of 18 from pneumonia caused by complications associated with AIDS.
  Congress enacted The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act or Ryan White Care Act, the United States' largest federally funded health related program (excluding Medicaid and Medicare).
  July 7, Brazilian singer Cazuza dies in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 32 from an AIDS-related illness.
  November 9, American singer-songwriter Tom Fogerty, rhythm guitarist of Creedence Clearwater Revival and older brother of John Fogerty, dies in Berkeley, California of AIDS-related tuberculosis.
  1991
  May, the play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner premieres in San Francisco.
  September 28, jazz legend Miles Davis dies at the age of 65. The official cause of death is bronchial pneumonia. He was taking Zidovudine (AZT) when hospitalized; at the time, Zidovudine (AZT) was a treatment for HIV and AIDS.
  November 7, NBA star Magic Johnson publicly announces that he is HIV-positive.
  November 24, A little over 24 hours after issuing a statement confirming that he had been tested HIV positive and had AIDS, Freddie Mercury (singer of the British band Queen) dies at the age of 45. The official cause of death is bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
  1992
  The first combination drug therapies for HIV are introduced.
  April 6, popular science fiction writer Isaac Asimov dies. Ten years later, his wife revealed that his death was due to AIDS-related complications. The writer was infected during a blood transfusion in 1983.
  June 18, Australian singer Peter Allen dies from complications due to AIDS.
  September 12, American actor Anthony Perkins, known for his role as Norman Bates in the Psycho movies, dies from AIDS.
  At the Royal Free Hospital in London, an out-patients' centre for HIV and AIDS is opened by Ian McKellen. It is named the Ian Charleson Day Centre after actor Ian Charleson.
  Robert Reed, best known as Mike Brady on the sitcom The Brady Bunch dies of AIDS on May 12.
  Denholm Elliott, best known as Marcus Brody on the Indiana Jones film series dies of AIDS related tuberculosis on 22 October 1992.
  1993
  Rudolf Nureyev, one of the world's greatest ballet dancers, dies from AIDS on January 6.
  Tennis star Arthur Ashe dies from AIDS-related complications
  1994
  Randy Shilts author of And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, dies at his home of AIDS related complications.
  Elizabeth Glaser, wife of Starsky & Hutch's Paul Michael Glaser, dies from AIDS-related complications almost 10 years after receiving an infected blood transfusion while giving birth. She unknowingly passes HIV on to her daughter Ariel and son Jake. Ariel died in 1988, Jake is living with HIV, while Paul Michael remains negative.
  Sarah Jane Salazar, a 19-year-old Filipino AIDS activist and educator, publicly admits she contracted HIV from a foreign customer while working as a club entertainer in the early 1990s. She was the second Filipino to do so. The first was Dolzura Cortez.
  1995
  Saquinavir, a new type of protease inhibitor drug, becomes available to treat HIV. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) becomes possible. Within two years, death rates due to AIDS will have plummeted in the developed world.
  March 26, Rapper Eazy-E dies from AIDS-related pneumonia.
  April 4, British DJ and entertainer Kenny Everett dies from AIDS.
  Oakland, California resident Jeff Getty becomes the first person to receive a bone marrow transplant from a Baboon as an experimental procedure to treat his HIV infection. The graft did not take, but Getty experienced some reduction in symptoms before dying of heart failure after cancer treatment in 2006.
  1996
  Robert Gallo's discovery that some natural compounds known as chemokines can block HIV and halt the progr
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