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HIV/AIDS Timeline
1991
This year's AIDS News from the New York Times 
HIV prevalence in young pregnant women in Uganda begins to decrease - the first significant downturn in a developing country. The success is attributed to countrywide mobilization against the epidemic.
November 8: Magic Johnson , 32 years old, announces that he is infected with HIV that he is retiring immediately from the Los Angeles Lakers.
December 1. World AIDS Day Theme: "Sharing the Challenge"
United Methodist
September 20. Fred Mutti dies at age 29 of complications related to AIDS. Shortly afterward, his parents Fritz and Etta Mae Mutti establish the Mutti AIDS Fund in memory him and his brother Tim, who died at age 30 on December 21, 1990 of complications from HIV.
GBGM publishes two books, Worship Resources of HIV and AIDS Ministries by Patricia D. Brown and Adele K. Wilcox (in English and Spanish) and Meditations for HIV and AIDS Ministries by Patricia D. Brown and Todd Masman. (See a selection of Worship Resources: "We Are Loved and Affirmed.&
July. The HIV/AIDS Ministries Network publishes Focus Paper Focus Paper #15 The Global HIV/AIDS Paandemic: Facts and Figures by Cathie Lyons
This timeline has been prepared by Nancy A. Carter from GBGM resources, her personal archives, the New York Times, the CDC, UNAIDS and other sources. Please send additions and corrections to her at ncarter@gbgm-umc.org.
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