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HIV/AIDS Timeline
1992
This year's AIDS News from the New York Times 
H.I.V. incidence rises among African American mothers in New York, which has the highest reported numbers of women infected by the virus.
September 26. Magic Johnson resigns from the National Commission on AIDS , writing a letter to President Bush saying that the Administration has "utterly ignored" the commission's recommendations and "dropped the ball" on AIDS.
April 8. Arthur Ashe , 48 years old, former United States Open and Wimbledon champion and a pioneer in sports and social issues, announces that has AIDS and has known for over three years.
December 1. World AIDS Day Theme: "AIDS: A Community Commitment"
December 13. Ricky Ray dies at age 15. "He and his two younger brothers, Robert, 14, and Randy, 13, who also are infected with HIV, were at the center of a Florida and national controversy in 1986 when the Arcadia School Board barred them from school because they were infected with HIV...." The three brothers were the first Florida children to receive the AIDS drug AZT. ("Ricky Ray loses AIDS battle" Miami Herald, December 14, 1992)
United Methodist
GBGM and the Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches in Latin America (CIEMAL) hold two major consultations on HIV/AIDS ministries in São Paulo and Recife, Brazil.
January. The HIV/AIDS Ministries Network publishes Focus Paper Focus Paper #16 Binding up the Brokenhearted Children by Nancy A. Carter
April. The HIV/AIDS Ministries Network publishes Focus Paper Focus Paper #17 "Women Don't Get AIDS: They Just Die From It" (Part 1) by Nancy A. Carter
July. The HIV/AIDS Ministries Network publishes Focus Paper Focus Paper #18 "Women Don't Get AIDS: They Just Die From It" (Part 2) by Nancy A. Carter
August. Fritz and Etta Mae Mutti move to Topeka, Kansas after he is elected a bishop of The United Methodist Church in July. Before moving here, they have lost two gay sons, Tim and Fred, to AIDS, a fact that is public knowledge. A few months after their arrival in Kansas, Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church begin to picket events at which Bishop Mutti speaks. They use vile language and carry abusive posters such as "FAG METHODIST CHURCH" and "FAG BISHOP MUTTI."
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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