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HIV/AIDS Timeline
1996
This year's AIDS News from the New York Times 
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is created.
Evidence of the efficacy of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) is presented for the first time.
December 1. World AIDS Day Theme: "One World. One Hope"
United Methodist
February 24. Debbi Hood Johnson, an active member of Computerized AIDS Ministries (CAM) who is HIV positive dies in a car accident at age 42. CAM's sysop (moderator), who is United Methodist clergy, goes to fly to North Carolina to conduct a memorial service for her.
April. The HIV/AIDS Ministries Network publishes Focus Paper #31 The AIDS Memorial Quilt by Debbi Hood Johnson
August. The HIV/AIDS Ministries Network publishes Focus Paper #30 The Black Church and the AIDS Crisis (Part 2) by Wesley S. T. Niles
November. "Welcoming Angels Through Computerized AIDS Ministries" by Nancy A. Carter (New World Outlook, July-August 1996), winner of two United Methodist Association of Communicators (UMAC) awards of merit (magazine feature article and design) .
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.
Credit line: This HIV/AIDS Timeline by Nancy A. Carter is online at http://gbgm-umc.org/health/aids/timeline.html, part of the web site of Health and Welfare Ministries, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist. This document may be freely reviewed, quoted, reproduced or translated, in part or in full, provided the author and source is acknowledged. It may not be sold or used in conjunction with commercial purposes without prior written approval from Health and Welfare Ministries.
