Title: The Bush administration and the AIDs Crisis
Description: When President George H.W. Bush took office in 1989, AIDS had been an epidemic for almost a decade. Awareness of the disease had spread, but there was no coherent strategy for management or treatment. Thus the Bush administration years became a fertile period for political mobilization around the issue of AIDS. This collection documents the Bush administration's response to the crisis through reports on AIDS spending, the international AIDS situation, and local and state AIDS policies. Internal memoranda discuss the administration's support for AIDS research funding, and correspondence from biotechnology firms address research policy. There are also reports and surveys collected on AIDS prevention, AIDS testing, and notes from international AIDS conferences. Two subjects of specific historical interest are in this collection. The first concerns AIDS and immigration. In 1987, Congress passed legislation prohibiting individuals with HIV/AIDS from entering the United States without a special waiver. Select reports and internal memoranda in this collection weigh whether it would be wise to allow people infected with HIV to travel or immigrate to the United States.
Subjects: AIDS (Disease), HIV infections, Politics and government
Places: United States
People: George W. Bush (1946-)
Time periods: 1989-1993