Description: Nurse Connie Hagerty runs adult AIDS program at Boston City Hospital. Weighs and talks with patient; looks at paperwork.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989
Description: Press conference at Mass. General Hospital with Dr. Gallo on AIDS and HTLV3. Talks about nature of the virus, homosexual transmission, and likely origin in central western Africa, probably Zaire, then through Haiti. People in MGH lab working with specimens in vials under protective hoods. Reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1984
Description: Continuation of press conference at Mass. General Hospital with Dr. Gallo on early research findings on AIDS and HTLV3. Reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1984
Description: Philip Johnston talks about promoting condom use to protect against AIDS. State will fund PSAs for safe sex. Larry Kessler fears campaign will not be aggressive enough.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/12/1990
Description: AIDS projections for Boston exceed capacity of health facilities. Experimental drug for pneumonia AP (aerosolized pentamidine) withheld at Mass General. Protesters lie on sidewalk. Fenway Community Health Center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1988
Description: AIDS quilt, result of The Names Project, is displayed in Boston. Sections made by friends and relatives to commemorate people who died of AIDS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1988
Description: AIDS quilt is on display at MIT athletic center. Visitors comment on its immenseness and personalness.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/21/1990
Description: Many people get together to stitch new panels in memory of loved ones to add to AIDS quilt when it returns to Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1990
Description: SENATE HEARING ON INSURANCE COMPANIES TESTING FOR AIDS IN CLIENTS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/10/1986
Description: Insurance companies might screen applicants for AIDS risk. Commissioner Peter Hiam & MCAD commissioner Alex Rodriguez concerned about likelihood of discrimination.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1987