Dr. Steffi Hartwell examines the HIV/AIDs pandemic of the 1980s. She discusses the origins of the disease and its effect on the United States. Hartwell describes various elements of the HIV/AIDs pandemic that mirror the current coronavirus epidemic and how we can apply what we learned from the AIDs pandemic to today’s epidemic.
Link to presentation: HIV-AIDs

Photo credit: Image of Mayor Tom Bradley speaking at AIDs Walk in Los Angeles, California in 1988. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons License and Mr. Flikker.