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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: An acquired defect of cellular immunity associated with infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a CD4-positive T-lymphocyte count under 200 cells/microliter or less than 14% of total lymphocytes, and increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and malignant neoplasms. Clinical manifestations also include emaciation (wasting) and dementia. These elements reflect criteria for AIDS as defined by the CDC in 1993

Found in 183 Collections and/or Records:

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-Film script for Universal”; “Shades of Grey” Annotated screenplay, including correspondence, 1998

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1998

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; Flyer for The Strange Demise of Jim Crow screening and article titled “Jeff Reynolds, Zillionaire” by Tom Curtis, May 1990-November 12, 1996

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: May 1990-November 12, 1996

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-“Guilty Until Proven Innocent” (Clarence Brandley) Texas Monthly, September 1987”; “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” article written by Tom Curtis, September 1987

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: September 1987

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; Houston Metropolitan and Gas Daily’s magazines, August 1992-September 1996

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: August 1992-September 1996

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; “Lifestyles of the Rich and Bankrupt” Texas Monthly article copies, March 1988

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: March 1988

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-Manchester Man, 1995”; Articles and research materials on AIDS, 1995

 File — Box 2542, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1995

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-“New Gang in Town” (What Happens When Cops Run Wild?) Texas Monthly, Sept. 1977”; “New Gang in Town” Texas Monthly article copies, 1977-1979

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1977-1979

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-No Color is My Kind: The Life of Eldreway Stearns and the Integration of Houston, Texas”; No Color is My Kind Manuscript by Thomas Cole, pgs. 1-23 (1 of 2), 1995

 File — Box 2542, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1995

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips- No Color is My Kind: The Life of Eldreway Stearns and the Integration of Houston, Texas”; No Color is My Kind Manuscript, chapters 4-8 (2 of 2), 1995

 File — Box 2542, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1995

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; North of Eden, Texas by Tom Curtis, photocopies of the original draft, undated

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: undated

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-“Oh, Give ‘em a Home” (Moving People Out of Housing Projects) Texas Monthly, Feb. 1988”; “Oh, Give Me A Home” article by Curtis, February 1988

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: February 1988

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-P.D. Deep Brám Stimulation [N Yén], Michael Kinsley”; “Mine Is Longer Than Yours” by Michael Kinsley in the New Yorker, April 7, 2008

 File — Box 2542, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: April 7, 2008

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-“Print Wars” (Houston Post vs. Chron.) Houston City Magazine, May 1984”; “Print Wars” article by Tom Curtis, May 1984

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: May 1984

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-“Raza Desunida” (Jose Angel Gutierrez) Texas Monthly, February 1977”; “Raza Desunida” article by Tom Curtis, 1977

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1977

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-“Reporter: The Hofheinz Rumor: Criouser and Curiouser” Texas Monthly, Sept. 1977”; Texas Monthly page, 1977

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1977

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; Rolling Stone magazine, March 19, 1992

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: March 19, 1992

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; Rolling Stone magazine, Issue 626, March 19, 1992

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: March 19, 1992

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; Rolling Stone magazine, Issue 626, March 19, 1992

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: March 19, 1992

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips-“Rumor at the Top” (Fred Hofheinz) exas Monthly, August 1977”; Texas Monthly pages, August 1977

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: August 1977

“Tom’s Archives Articles & Clips”; SELF Magazine, April 1993

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: April 1993