OT
Yeah, he was right on top of it:
1981 Jun 5, The Federal Centers for Disease Control published the first report of a mysterious outbreak of a sometimes fatal pneumonia among gay men. The syndrome was named Ac-quired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1982. Within 10 years the disease killed 110,000 Americans. People infected with HIV came to be defined as having AIDS when their immune system became so weak that they got one of 26 specific illnesses including non-Hodgkin’s lym-phoma, pneumonia, brain infections and some other cancers.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, Z1 p.4)(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B2)(AP, 6/5/02)
1987 Apr 1, In his first major speech on the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy number one."
(AP, 4/1/98)