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NIH commemorative AIDS website (National Library of Medicine (U.S.))

• Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:05:07 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: NIH commemorative AIDS website (National Library of Medicine (U.S.))
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:35:12 -0400 
From: "Harden, Victoria (OD)" <HardenV@od31tm1.od.nih.gov>
Subject: NIH commemorative AIDS website
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first publication about AIDS, The
NIH History Office announces the launch of a website, "In Their Own Words:
NIH Researchers Recall the Early Days of AIDS," at
http://aidshistory.nih.gov .  The website features some of the oral history
interviews the NIH Historian,Victoria A. Harden, and her colleagues have
done since 1988 with NIH physicians, scientists, nurses, and administrators
whose work comprised the NIH's response to AIDS between 1981 and 1988.

On the topmost pages of five "chapters," voice clips from the interviews can
be activated, and a  "Transcripts" link leads the viewer to the complete
texts of the interviews.  A "Timeline" contains a month-by-month chronology
of selected items related primarily to NIH's activities and those of other
DHHS agencies.  A "Document Archive" contains selected published articles,
unpublished documents and ephemera, and institute press releases.  An "Image
Archive" contains selected images related to the epidemic.

Many more interviews, documents, and images will be added as time goes on
with the goal of making this site an archival resource on the history of the
biomedical response to AIDS.

The website was a joint project of the NIH History Office, the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Cancer Institute,
the NIH Clinical Center, and the NIH Center for Information Technology.

Please send feedback about the website to history@nih.gov.

Victoria A. Harden, Ph.D.
Historian, NIH
Director, DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research
Building 31  Room 2B09   MSC 2092
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-2092
301-496-6610 (voice)
301-402-1434 (fax)
victoria.harden@nih.gov (email)
visit our website at http://www.nih.gov/od/museum

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