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The human side of AIDS Images of the early years of the AIDS epidemic, by Washington Post photographers.
Aug. 1, 1983
From left, Anthony Ferrara of D.C., Michael Callen of New York and Roger Lyon of San Francisco — all of whom had AIDS — testify before the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill.
James K.W. Atherton
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The Washington Post
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Oct. 20, 1987
AIDS patient Robert Osborne sits in bed in his room at San Francisco’s Coming Home Hospice.
Ray Lustig
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The Washington Post
Oct. 27, 1987
Nel van Beusekom, a head nurse at the Washington Hospital Center, chats with AIDS patient Wilbur Archie at mealtime.
Ray Lustig
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The Washington Post
March 18, 1987
A child is tethered to a door knob in the AIDS pediatric ward of New York’s Harlem Hospital.
Frank Johnston
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The Washington Post
March 10, 1987
A young brother and sister were among the many AIDS patients at the Harlem Hospital in New York. Their mother abandoned them after birth.
Frank Johnston
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The Washington Post
Dec. 23, 1987
Alex Compagnet, president of Salud, a D.C. health organization, teaches a class on HIV/AIDS designed for Hispanics.
Fred Sweets
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The Washington Post
June 5, 1990
Volunteer Kurt Helsel delivers dinners to a row house in Baltimore as part of Moveable Feast, a program started by gay activists and others to feed people with AIDS who cannot shop or cook for themselves.
John McDonnell
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The Washington Post
June 1991
From left, Eddie Penland, Ken Young and Mike Tankersley sit in the living room of the House of Mercy, a family care home for people with HIV/AIDS. The home is on the grounds of a convent in Belmont, N.C., and is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy.
Nancy Andrews
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The Washington Post
June 1991
Beth Maren, resident director of the House of Mercy, pats Eddie Penland on the back as he gets ready to go to sleep. She had just given him eye drops.
Nancy Andrews
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The Washington Post
July 18, 1991
Each week for about a year, Tim Rogers, coordinator of Volunteer Body Workers, a group that gives massages at no cost to people with AIDS, massaged Adam Gale's aching joints. Gale, 27, who had pneumonia, said the sessions helped him breathe easier and relieved his pain. They also help build self-esteem. The stigma of AIDS causes many people to not touch people living with the disease; moreover, people with AIDS who have sores on their bodies might have a more difficult time getting a massage.
Nancy Andrews
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The Washington Post
April 25, 1991
LaShaun Evans, center, holds a training session for adolescents to become peer counselors in AIDS education at Prince George's County Health Department Resource. At the time this photo was taken, Evans was HIV positive.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
May 14, 1991
Alvin Carpenter, left, and Sister Anita Heran prepare the noon meal with the help of two clients, both of whom were homeless and HIV positive at the time this photo was taken, at Washington, D.C.’s Healthcare for the Homeless, a nonprofit medical group.
Dayna Smith
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The Washington Post
Oct. 2, 1992
The funeral director of Rapp Funeral Services, left, sits with Robert D. Shelly, who had AIDS at the time this photo was taken, to go over the details of his funeral.
James A. Parcell
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The Washington Post
Oct. 27, 1992
The entrance to the offices of Washington’s Carl Vogel Foundation, a nonprofit organization helping people with AIDS.
Tom Allen
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The Washington Post
June 5, 1992
Dwayne Brown, left, pays a visit to his dermatologist, Clyburn E. Soden, who checks on the progress of Brown’s AIDS-related skin infection, in Adelphi.
Keith Jenkins
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The Washington Post
June 5, 1992
Dwayne Brown, who was HIV positive at the time this photo was taken, spent many afternoons in his Adelphi home watching soap operas, especially "All My Children."
Keith Jenkins
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The Washington Post
Sept. 25, 1992
Dr. Richard DiGioia hugs his patient Tom Kane before leaving George Washington Hospital.
James A. Parcell
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The Washington Post
1992
Mary Pollei comforts her brother Michael Ross, who died in 1992, on the day the AIDS Memorial Quilt was unfolded on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
Keith Jenkins
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The Washington Post
Oct. 2, 1992
Brian Biggs wipes away tears as he watches a videotape of his wife, Charlene, holding the lifeless body of their daughter, Alexzandria, in Silver Spring.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Oct. 9, 1992
Anna Bartolomeo, from Washington, D.C., listens to the names of people who died of AIDS-related illness being read on the grounds of the Washington Monument. Her husband, Edward Mardvich, who had AIDS, died at age 31.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
April 25, 1993
The AIDS Memorial Quilt as seen from the Washington Monument.
Andre Chung
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The Washington Post
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