Did Aids change America? BBC News

Posted on December 2, 2008 
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More than 500,000 people have died from Aids-related illnesses in the US in the last 27 years – but has Aids really changed the country?

The actor Paul Michael Glaser, who presents a Radio 2 documentary on the subject on Tuesday, has no doubt it has had a tremendous impact at a personal level.

Best known as Starsky in the long-running television show “Starsky & Hutch,” Glaser said: “Aids had a huge impact on my life and on hundreds of thousands of my fellow Americans.”

Glaser’s own wife, Elizabeth contracted the HIV, which causes Aids, from a blood tranfusion in 1981 – the year Aids was first reported in the US.

See Did Aids change America? BBC News

SEE ALSO

US HIV rate ‘higher than thought’
03 Aug 08 |  Health

Bush approves $48bn to fight Aids
30 Jul 08 |  Americas

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