Please fellow readers, take the time to read this great clip from Gawker. I grew up in the era of 1980's AIDS paranoia and I remember this great Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. He was like our wise old uncle, the elder tribesman who led many people out of the confusing time of the AIDS outbreak and into the light of educated advice on how to prevent the spread of AIDS, how to deal with the spread, how to approach victims of it (not by quarantine as some more fearful people suggested back then) and demonstrated with tact and steadiness the way to disseminate the TRUTH about AIDS. 

It was a time, the 80's. It was not the best of times, and not the worst. But definitely a time worth revisiting if only to remember how far we've come in the era of mass information and how best to spread truth instead of paranoia and fear. 

Link here :     http://gawker.com/5986875/remembering-c-everett-koops-groundbreaking-controversial-aids-introduction-brochure?post=57779522

PLEASE READ :)