Roberto Duran hugs former boxing champ & rival Esteban De Jesus, dying of AIDS.

1989

• Scientists find that even before AIDS symptoms develop, HIV replicates wildly in the blood. The goal of treatment shifts to keeping HIV at low levels.
• Robert Mapplethorpe dies of AIDS
• A monumental safe-sex message in Paris.
  

• 1993

  • ACT UP and Benetton put a giant condom on the Place de Concorde in Paris.
  • The play "Angels in America" wins the Pulitzer Prize.
  • The CDC launches condom ads on TV