AIDS in LA

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Text continues: "Total reported cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Metropolitan Los Angeles county, California; January 1983 through December 31, 1989." White text on black background. The center of the poster contains a green, red, orange, and yellow map of Los Angeles county indicating total cases of AIDS per census tract.

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Title AIDS in LA

Subject AIDS (Disease) (subject), Terukina, David (personal name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 60 x 90 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Date Created 1989

Creator Greenwald, Alex (creator)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance), Donated as part of the Morris Kight McCadden Place Collection. (donor), Terukina, David (contributor), Weintraub, David (contributor)

Publisher California State University, Northridge (original), Department of Geography (original), Occasional Publications in Geography Number 4 (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights The copyright status for this work is undetermined. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/UND/1.0/?language=en

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-46573

Identifier map-case 5.3 (box), P02961 (call number), one-2018001-p02961~01.tif (filename), one-c4-46573 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 46573

Unique identifier UC12336297

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p02961~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 27.1 in × 18.2 in at 300dpi
68.9 cm × 46.3 cm at 300dpi

Transcript (If available)

Content

The first cases of what was later to be known as the Acquired
oT ill [Talos SY (AIDS) were reported to the federal
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by physicians from Los Angeles
County. Between October 1980 and May 1981, five previously
healthy young men were diagnosed with Pneumocystis carinii
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exclusively among patients with severe underlying
immunosuppressive diseases. During the same time, Kaposi's
sarcoma, a rare type of cancer most commonly found among men of
Mediterranean descent, was being diagnosed with increasing
frequency among homosexuals in New York City and California. A
task force was established at the CDC to determine the origin of this
new medical syndrome. With the cooperation of state and local
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information being collected, a highly specific AIDS case definition
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a legally reportable disease in California in March 1983.

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soon recognized among intravenous drug users, recipients of blood
and blood products, infants born to mothers at risk to the disease, ; a
, and heterosexual partners of affected persons. The appearance of C4

cases among distinct populations suggested that AIDS was caused
by an infection transmitted by sexual intercourse, blood transfusion,
the sharing of needles among drug addicts, or perinatally from
mother to fetus. The identification of the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in April 1984 confirmed these earlier
hypotheses regarding routes of transmission.

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AIDS statistics. Case data are tabulated by age, race, sex, place of
residence at onset of illness, patient risk characteristic, and date of

Occasional Publications in Geography Number 4 (1989)
Department of Geograp
California State University, Northridge

diagnosis. Ninety percent of all cases have been homosexual males.
The average age of reported cases is thirty-eight years. Whites,
Hispanics, and Blacks comprise respectively 66%, 17%, and 15% of
reported cases. Children under the age of thirteen years account for
less than one percent of infected population. These statistics reflect
only those AIDS cases that are reported to the county health
department. Not included are those individuals whose HIV illness did
not satisfy the CDC surveillance criteria or who did not reside in Los
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All information reported to the Department of Health Service is
Strictly confidential. The department is prohibited from releasing any
information which could be used, either directly or indirectly, to
identify specific individuals. To that end, the statistics displayed on
this map are summary data aggregated by census tract. In order to
ensure additional anonymity, area shading has been employed.

This map portrays the AIDS patients’ census tracts of residence in
the metropolitan area at the time of diagnosis. All locatable cases
reported up to December 31, 1988 have been included. As of that
date, a cumulative total of 6,135 cases had been reported among Los
Angeles County residents. No census tract was reported for 704
cases. Of the 5,431 casés with census tracts, 4,940 cases were
reported from 802 census tracts with two or more cases; one case
was reported from each of 491 additional census tracts. Lack of
reliable, detailed mobility and population data for the county and its
subdivisions during the last seven years makes accurate estimates of
disease incidence and neighborhood infection rates extremely
difficult.

The principal area of diagnosed infection in Southern California is
situated northwest of downtown Los Angeles in the communities of
West Hollywood, Hollywood, Studio City, North Hollywood, Los Feliz,
Silver Lake, and Glassell Park. Another significant area of reported
cases is Long Beach.

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Funded by a Special Instructional Grant of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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AIDS IN LA

Total Reported Cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Metropolitan Los Angeles County, California
January 1983 through December 31, 1988

Student Geographers
Alex Greenwald David Terukina David Weintraub

Faculty Advisor

Professor William Bowen
Department of Geography California State University, Northridge

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Total Reported Cases of AIDS
per Census Tract

50 - 124

25 - 49

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Source: Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
AIDS Epidemiology Program

Map compiled and drawn with Apple Macintosh II computer and Houston Instrument plotter
using MapMaker, Exstatix, Canvas 2, MacDraw Il, and MacPlot software.
A Census tract boundaries: Strategic Locations Planning, Incorporated.

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