Support WBUR'They Know What A Pandemic Is': HIV Survivors See Similarities To AIDS EpidemicPlay04:35Download AudioLesley McClurgAugust 03, 2020 ShareHarvey Milk's name appears among engraved names during a World AIDS Day commemoration event in 2015 at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco, California. More than 700,000 people have died from AIDS in the United States. (Getty Images)