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.