Od Magnusa do Planine. Aids v Sloveniji od 1987 do 1992 med politiko, javnim zdravjem in družbo
From Magnus to Planina Aids in Slovenia 1987–1992 Between Politics, Public Health, and Society

Summary/Abstract: The article is conceived as an atempt to provide a historical overview of the political history of AIDS fom the second half of the 1980s to the early 1990s. The contribution is based mainly on the references to the disease in the central Slovenian daily newspaper Delo. The archival materials of the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) on this issue, which have yet to be sorted, should also be highlighted as an important source. The presence of this issue in the parliamentary bodies has been analysed and contextualised using the Slovenian Parliamentary Corpus, which consists of digitised parliamentary materials and was prepared by the INZ Infastructure Programme in the context of the Slovenian Common Language Resources and Technology Infastructure (clarin.si). The most notable feature of the AIDS dynamic in the public sphere between 1987 and 1993 is the so-called “de-gayisation” of AIDS and the symbolic shif of the so-called “most-at-risk group” fom homosexuals to intravenous drug users.

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