{"id":8726,"date":"2025-11-29T23:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/world-aids-day-us-government-acknowledgment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T23:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:03:01","slug":"world-aids-day-us-government-acknowledgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/world-aids-day-us-government-acknowledgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The U.S. government\u2019s failure to acknowledge World AIDS Day takes us back to a troubling time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: The U.S. government\u2019s failure to acknowledge World AIDS Day takes us back to a troubling time<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSilence = Death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silence%3DDeath_Project\">mantra<\/a> of determined <a href=\"https:\/\/actupny.com\/\">AIDS activists<\/a> who quickly concluded the U.S. government was not doing enough to combat the then-emergent AIDS epidemic, which first hit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/07\/03\/us\/rare-cancer-seen-in-41-homosexuals.html\">headlines<\/a> in 1981.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/29\/world-aids-day-us-government-acknowledgment\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Gavin Hart<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/29\/world-aids-day-us-government-acknowledgment\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The U.S. government\u2019s failure to acknowledge World AIDS Day takes us back to a troubling time \u201cSilence = Death.\u201d That was the mantra of determined AIDS activists who quickly concluded the U.S. government was not doing enough to combat the then-emergent AIDS epidemic, which first hit the headlines in 1981. Read the rest\u2026 Gavin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2997,2143,2540,3012,2151,2180,2185],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-first-opinion","category-global-health","category-hiv-aids","category-policy","category-public-health","category-white-house","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}