{"id":5176,"date":"2021-04-29T01:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2021-05-11T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T13:41:38","slug":"email-reflection-4-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2021\/04\/29\/email-reflection-4-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Reflection: 4\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email Reflection 4\/29\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Whittemore<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I decided to reflect upon Sam Drabkin\u2019s article: Fighting the Epidemic- Grass-root HIV suppport groups in the 80\u2019s. This article stood out to me due to the fact that President Ronald Raegan and his administration was very slow to fund the HIV epidemic along with AIDS due to the fact that it was labeled as a \u201c\u2018gay compromise syndome\u2019\u201d As the article state: \u201cThe equivalence of AIDS with the gay community made the conservative Reagan administration sluggish in its response to say the least.\u201d I find it interesting that even though AIDS was around in the 1970\u2019s that the disease itself was not deemed as a disease unitl the 80\u2019s. I find this reckless due to the fact that in 1982, 618 people that had the disease died because of the lack of response and the article states that \u201cBy the end of 1983 that number had more than tripled\u201d However, once the Reagan administration \u201cchanged its position\u201d on this disease, Reagan \u201cincreased the federal budget for AIDS research, to half a billion dollars over 5 years.\u201d The budget that the Reagan administration funded for AIDS research allowed Catherine Drabkin to direct her own support group. I also find it interesting that after one of Reagan\u2019s friends: Rock Hudson died due to AIDS, \u201cmarked a turning point\u201d. After movie star Rock Hudson died, \u201cfunds were made available for research and treatment.\u201d I find this article fascinating because only after movie star Rock Hudson died of this disease, did the Reagan administration actually take action to attempt to control it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email Reflection 4\/29\u00a0 Sarah Whittemore &nbsp; I decided to reflect upon Sam Drabkin\u2019s article: Fighting the Epidemic- Grass-root HIV suppport groups in the 80\u2019s. This article stood out to me due to the fact that President Ronald Raegan and his administration was very slow to fund the HIV epidemic along with AIDS due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}