ABC News Nightine: AIDS - 12/17/82

One of the earliest network television programs on AIDS, this episode of ABC News' Nightline with Ted Koppel aired on December 17, 1982. The episode examines the medical, legal, social, religious, and emotional impact of the disease as it was at the start of the epidemic, including the treatment and discussion of children with AIDS, the prevalence of Kaposi Sarcoma among certain AIDS victims, early research efforts, statistics on victims, and the danger and lack of a test for AIDS in donated blood are discussed. Dr. Joseph Bove of the American Association of Blood Banks, Dr. James Curran of the CDC, and AIDS researcher Dr. Roger Enlow are interviewed. An update on a heart transplant patient from Pittsburgh is included at the end of the episode.