Neglected No More: Hard pandemic lessons that ought to sicken us
When I first wrote about AIDS in 1981, the acronym had yet to be coined; the strange new illness, which seemed to affect only gay men, was dubbed grid — gay-related immune deficiency. In the four decades since, AIDS has become, arguably, the most deadly pandemic in human history. At least 36 million people have died of AIDS, and another 40 million are still living with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. (Of course, nothing compares to the Black Death. The bubonic plague killed somewhere between 75…