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Chronology of AIDS in San Francisco, 1986
January
- Ward 5B, the AIDS inpatient unit at SFGH, moves to an expanded unit on 5A.
- Reagan mentions AIDS in public for first time.
March
- CDC supports voluntary testing for all Americans at risk for AIDS.
April
- Blood agencies reverse June 1985 decision and begin "look back" program.
May
- International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses names AIDS virus HIV.
- US Patent Office makes Pasteur Institute senior partner on patent for HIV antibody test.
June
- NIAID awards contracts to 14 medical centers to establish AIDS Treatment Evaluation Units for development of AIDS therapies. SFGH included.
- Justice department permits employers to ban employees with AIDS from work.
- First CDC report of patient infected with HIV from tested blood; HIV antibody test 95% sensitive.
November
- California proposition 64 (Lyndon LaRouche) stipulating restrictions on PWA is overwhelmingly defeated.
December
- December 11 UCSF Task Force on AIDS is first to quantify risk of HIV transmission to health workers and identify risk factors. (Gerbering, NEJM, 12/11/86)
- World Health Organization [WHO] launches global AIDS strategy.
- Second International Conference on AIDS, Atlanta.
- Surgeon General C. Everett Koop sends guidelines against AIDS transmission to every U.S. household.
- National Academy of Sciences/ National Institute of Medicine issue report warning that AIDS is heterosexually transmissible.
- AIDS Trials Coordinating Unit established at SFGH's AIDS Activities Division, to provide statistical consultation for clinical trials.
- FDA considers, but rejects, withdrawing Abbott's anti-HIV antibody test because of inaccuracy; Red Cross debates dropping Abbott test but doesn't act.
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