Please choose a section:

• Opening remarks

1. How AIDS started

• The very beginning
• From a gay disease...
• ...to everyone's problem
• Testing becomes available in 1985
• Hemophilia proves that HIV is not transmitted by casual contact

2. PHASE 1:
    The Surgeon General's Report on AIDS

• How the Report on AIDS got started
• Who's at risk of getting AIDS
• How the U.S. policy on AIDS came to be
• The "glossy" Report on AIDS
• How a woman's presence influenced politics
• How dirty words became part of an official document
• How the idea of SEX EDUCATION came up
• Reactions to Dr. Koop's Report on AIDS
• How Dr. Koop became the "Condom King"
• The White House's stance on the epidemic

3. A look back to 1982-85

• The sad story of the 3 Ray Boys
• How Dr. Koop got President Reagan's attention
• How Dr. Koop was burned in effigy
• What could have been done to contain AIDS
• More stories from the dark age of the epidemic

4. PHASE 2:
   The U.S. creates a health policy

• The big mailing (107 million copies!)
• How Dr. Fauci became "the face of AIDS"
• Summary of the events that shaped AIDS policy

5. PHASE 3:
   On the road to victory

• Dr. Koop's agenda for the year 1987
• How Dr. Koop met President Reagan in a closet
• Back to Dr. Koop's agenda for 1987
• Closing remarks and perspectives

• Acknowledgements