Reagan Orders Report on AIDS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan announced today that he is asking Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to prepare “a major report to the American people” on AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Speaking to employees at the Department of Health and Human Services as a follow-up to his State of the Union address, Reagan said that “one of our highest public health priorities is going to continue to be finding a cure for AIDS.”
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