Title:

Address Presented to the Mayors' AIDS Task Force, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Washington, DC

Creator:

Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013

Date:

23 January 1987

Description:

For his first three years as U.S. Surgeon General, Koop had been prohibited to publicly address AIDS, an issue of great controversy within the Reagan Administration. Once Koop's superiors in the Department of Health and Human Services reversed their position and allowed him to discuss AIDS--the greatest public-health crisis of the late 20th-century--Koop went on a three-year crusade to inform Americans about the disease and to help them protect themselves from it. Between 1986 and 1989, he was the most prominent--and often only--government spokesman on the AIDS epidemic.

Location:

Box: 105. Folder: 68

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Speeches

Subject:

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Health Education, Disease Transmission, Infectious, Interpersonal Relations, and Safe Sex

Format:

Text

Extent:

26 pages

Relation:

Address Presented to the Mayors' AIDS Task Force, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Washington, DC [Reminiscence], 2003

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

QQBBGG

NLM ID:

101584930X87

Profiles Collection:

The C. Everett Koop Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X87

Story Section:

AIDS, the Surgeon General, and the Politics of Public Health