History
The Council was not the first Presidential inquiry into HIV. In 1987, Ronald Reagan appointed the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic (Watkins Commission) to investigate the AIDS epidemic.
Read more about this topic: Presidential Advisory Council On HIV/AIDS
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