<Dl> <Dt> 1987 </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> AZT (zidovudine), the first antiretroviral drug, becomes available to treat HIV . </Li> <Li> On February 4, popular performing musician Liberace dies from AIDS related illness . </Li> <Li> In April the FDA approves a Western blot test as a more precise test for the presence of HIV antibodies than the ELISA test .' </Li> <Li> In March, the direct action advocacy group ACT UP is founded by Larry Kramer in New York City . </Li> <Li> On May 28, playwright and performer Charles Ludlam dies of AIDS - related PCP pneumonia . </Li> <Li> On July 11, Tom Waddell, founder of the Gay Games, dies of AIDS . </Li> <Li> Randy Shilts's investigative journalism book And the Band Played On published chronicling the 1980--1985 discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS, government indifference, and political infighting in the United States to what was initially perceived as a gay disease . (Shilts himself would die of the disease on February 17, 1994 .) </Li> <Li> On August 18 the FDA sanctioned the first clinical trial to test an HIV vaccine candidate in a research participant . </Li> </Ul> <Li> AZT (zidovudine), the first antiretroviral drug, becomes available to treat HIV . </Li> <Li> On February 4, popular performing musician Liberace dies from AIDS related illness . </Li>

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