NOVA: Can AIDS Be Stopped? - PBS (11/11/1986)

55 min.
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[@beverlyledbetter4906]

It's amazing how none of this was relevant until it started to affect "normal people"... like that girl with the boyfriend. Minorities and gays didn't matter, though they're human too. I get their reasoning behind that --racism and fear of being outed--but that still doesn't make it right!😒

[@keenannorris3309]

welcome to the 80s

[@zeddeka]

There was still very much a lot of Victorian, authoritarian social attitudes in the 1980s. Like the Victorians believed, there was still the idea of victims either being "deserving" of "undeserving". If you didn't conform, you were deemed to have earned every bit of pain and misfortune you got. A very brutal way of looking at the world. Contrary to what some people (who only remember the music) will tell you, the 1980s were a pretty horrible decade.

[@lepanhman]

Having to take AZ-T every 4 hours must of been a lot if the drug,no wonder it was so toxic .Also I wonder if Bruce ended up catching it off Bobbi

[@Ocea8i53]

Ohm why is tjeir no future updates of this

[@heytimgarcia]

I wish I knew what happened to Bobbi. 💔

[@Queenwraith]

She died, got pCp again and was in hospital for 4 months then passed unfortunately

[@heytimgarcia]

@@Queenwraith Thank you for the update. I assumed as much (I read that virtually all patients in early AZT trials passed).

[@Casper-ob1fm]

@@Queenwraith which year did she die?

[@crocodile1313]

@@Queenwraith Thanks for your information. May I ask where you found out about Bobbi?

[@Queenwraith]

@@crocodile1313 It was an update on a video on dailymotion. Can’t remember the name, Horizon or something like that

[@code3wgc]

Interesting that at the time of this documentary they thought HIV and AIDS were separate viruses and they speculated that if someone has the HIV virus they might be resistant to the AIDS virus. 😅

[@marcK599.]

4% of the population have a genetic mutation that prevents HIV from turning into AIDs

[@_letstartariot]

What? HIV was found because they were looking for the virus that causes AIDS. It was a combination effort of US and French scientists. It did originally have a different name, HTLV III. But was renamed to HIV.

[@desmondgallagher5648]

I wonder how Bobbi that lovely girl progressed to good health. They are a lovely couple.

[@susanmargaretwills6432]

"Graphic Illustrations of Human Anatomy & Sexual Behaviour"?.. we're in 2024 & we see more "graphics" on tv in a sanitary pad commercial; seriously tho this documentary seems very well put together - I live in Europe & it has to be said Thank the Lord for the Americans - we despise you coz ur so rich but you r 'number 1' in so many fields including Research

[@Dan.50]

I'm seeing lots of similarities...

[@Montrosesister12]

Lots of what

[@kimlarso]

💥👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@murtazadurrani76]

Sir please explain how did they collected such a large amount of viruses

[@_letstartariot]

Like it divides in a humans body, they can mimic the same conditions is a test tube, done in a safe and controlled manner.

[@OjokMartin-z4n]

Scientist are paramount..but the problem is they are not recognised

[@Jason-ml3vs]

Exactly. 40 years later people would pay more attention to Kim Kardashian having another kid than they would if they announced an actual cure for HIV. Name one scientist worth a billion dollars.

[@AntajuanGrady]

robert gallo KNOWS THE TRUTH the HIDDEN truth

[@ryanfrazier-gi1pb]

My gosh, how this sounds like to me of how covid is hitting everyone right now

[@lepanhman]

Nothing like covid

[@LynetteBishop-v9k]

HIV was created by your government to eradicate certain undesirables... would you believe they used the poopy diaper of a 4 year to formulate the virus, and they purposely released it in African countries first, knowing full well it would spread... HIV is very similar to the coronavirus ... do the research and look at the facts and data 🤷‍♀️

[@George-hl2xm]

Covid is worse

[@valentinocaboni]

🔮🖐️✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

[@imbaeblink3602]

Llois Botinas

[@grahamherbert3612]

My friend Terence died of the AIDS, he was a very promiscuous gay bottom, he also developed rectal cancer, his anus began to rot away.

[@soniastarmorales8013]

Sorry about your friend & Everyone who has and is suffering from hiv, cancer etc. D32 gene for everyone=the cure.

[@knowledgeseeker-yy1ix]

that is nasty...

[@uodbouqwerty7128]

😅

[@grahamherbert3612]

@@uodbouqwerty7128 He was known as 'Truckstop Tel', He spent weeks hitch hiking to lorry parks, then presenting his backside (in ladies panties) to nookie starved long distance drivers. I personally believe that's how he caught the AIDS.

[@chrissimpson6701]

No, it wont be stopped. It is Gods punishment .

[@josephmarzullo]

no viruses are a normal part of life on earth. take your bs elsewhere

[@juliannesylva3883]

Seriously? What a cruel thing to say.

[@PriscillaSeraphim]

Your face looks like God’s punishment

[@douglaz74]

I just reported you and your hateful comments

[@chrissimpson6701]

No, it wont be stopped. It is Gods punishment for the deviant sexual lifestyles that were sinful to Him..

[@mewaller2423]

You sound crazy as hell you know people got Aids and was not on drugs and were not sexual deviant. What about a child if born and has no sin of this world upon them. What about a person that got a blood transfusion and got Aids .. God punished them... Your logic Is DEVIANT SIR.... ARE BLACK PEOPLE PUNISHED FOR BEING BLACK...SIR... CHANGE YOUR STINKY THINKING

[@desmondgallagher5648]

😂Jesus your thick

[@George-hl2xm]

Nonsense don’t be a douche all your life it’s not cool

[@Frankiesighs]

You know youre gay right?