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Chronology of AIDS in San Francisco, 1985
January
- January 14 Irwin Memorial Blood Bank prohibits males having more than one sex partner to donate blood.
- Gallo et al. publish full nucleic acid sequence of HTLV-III.
February
- February 1 Paul Luciw, Jay Levy, Ray Sanchez-Pescador et al. at Chiron publish ARV nucleic acid sequence.
- February 7 Dan Capon, M.A. Muesing et al. at Genentech publish ARV nucleic acid sequence.
- FDA approves Gallo's AIDS diagnostic kit based on Western blot technique.
March
- March 2 FDA approves Abbott Laboratory's commercial test for AIDS. Red Cross contracts with Abbott, one of five companies supplying test, and within days phases in the test. Britain and France delay testing six months to introduce their own antibody tests.
- March 3 IMBB introduces genetically engineered hepatitis B antibody core test.
- March 6 IMBB institutes anti-AIDS virus antibody test, the first blood bank in U.S. to do so.
- March 14 San Francisco Chronicle reports army study showing AIDS transmission through heterosexual contact.
- San Francisco County Community Consortium founded for community-based AIDS drug testing.
April
- CDC drops Haitians from high risk groups for AIDS.
Spring
- California legislature and Gov. Deukmejian approve bill banning HIV antibody testing without subject's written informed consent, except at alternate test sites where testing is anonymous. Bill also bars employer and insurance company discrimination on basis of AIDS status. $5 million appropriated to establish HIV community test sites. Disclosure of test results to third party must be improved in writing by test taker.
May
- US Patent Office awards patent on Gallo's antibody test.
Summer
- AIDS diagnostic kits using ELISA become commercially available. California law mandates every county to offer AIDS test at public health centers; guidelines for preserving confidentiality.
June
- June 24 IMBB adds bar codes for confidential exclusion of blood units.
- American Association of Blood Banks, American Red Cross, Council of Community Blood Centers agree not to begin "look back" program to identify people who have received AIDS-infected blood.
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID] creates first AIDS Treatment Evaluation Units, predecessor to AIDS Clinical Trial Groups (ACTGs).
- California public health clinics begin testing for AIDS.
September
- Mathilde Krim and Michael Gottlieb found American Foundation for AIDS Research [AmFAR], merging AIDS Medical Foundation of New York and National AIDS Research Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Martin Delaney and others found Project Inform.
October
- Public's awareness of AIDS rises with Rock Hudson's death.
- Congress allots $70 million to AIDS research day after Hudson's death.
December
- Pasteur Institute goes to court to win share of royalties on AIDS antibody test.
- CDC first considers vertical transmission of AIDS virus; advises infected women to "consider" delaying pregnancy until more known about perinatal transmission.
- CDC contracts with San Francisco AIDS Foundation to develop materials for anonymous AIDS testing sites.
- First International Conference on AIDS, Atlanta.
- Late in year Department of Defense announces that new recruits will be screened for AIDS and rejected if positive.
- Third UC AIDS Clinical Research Center founded at UCSD. Goals of three centers broaden to include rapid evaluation of new therapeutic agents.
- 13-year-old Ryan White, a hemophiliac with AIDS, is barred from school in Indiana.
- CDC expands surveillance definition, in light of HIV antibody test.
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