Lesson Plan: The Response to H.I.V./AIDS
Grades 9-12
The AIDS pandemic was marked by a slow response and a lack of clear public health messages and testing. Despite those lessons and the infrastructure built to contain the spread of infectious diseases, the United States still faced significant hurdles during the outbreak of Covid-19. The availability of vaccines encouraged a belief that infectious diseases were a thing of the past and during the second half of the 20th century, and much of the U.S.’s disease prevention infrastructure crumbled.
This lesson will help students to understand the history of public health, government’s response or lack thereof to public health emergencies, and it will introduce pandemic preparation by several presidential administrations. Students will examine the issues of federalism involved in public health and take a position on what level of government should be responsible for handling public health emergencies.
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