On this day 28 years ago…

Mar 29, 2018

Bush called for compassion, not discrimination, toward those infected with the virus

PIC: Bush was the US president from 1989 to 1993. (Credit: AFP)

TODAY IN HISTORY

March 29, 1990      

Former US president George H W Bush, addressing the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS, declared his administration "on a wartime footing" against the disease, and called for compassion, not discrimination, toward those infected with the virus.

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