Ron and Nancy were silent on AIDS but other conservatives spoke for them. 1986, William F Buckley Jr

in the NY Times. The entire read is a chilling look back on the era in which Hillary Clinton tells us the Republicans were doing 'quiet advocacy' for People with AIDS. Here is what Republicans were actually saying during the Presidential Negligence of Ronald Wilson Regan:

Crucial Steps in Combating the Aids Epidemic; Identify All the Carriers
Universal testing?
Yes, in stages. But in rapid stages. The next logical enforcer is the insurance company. Blue Cross, for instance, can reasonably require of those who wish to join it a physical examination that requires tests. Almost every American, making his way from infancy to maturity, needs to pass by one or another institutional turnstile. Here the lady will spring out, her right hand on a needle, her left on a computer, to capture a blood specimen.

Is it then proposed by School B that AIDS carriers should be publicly identified as such?
Let us be patient on that score, pending any tilt in the evidence: If the news is progressively reassuring, public identification would not be necessary. If it turns in the other direction and AIDS develops among, say, children who have merely roughhoused with other children who suffer from AIDS, then more drastic segregation measures would be called for.

But if the time has not come, and may never come, for public identification, what then of private identification?
Everyone detected with AIDS should be tatooed in the upper forearm, to protect common-needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/specials/buckley-aids.html

Wanted to tattoo people with HIV. Reagan said nothing as the country reeled from this and other horrific suggestions from Republicans. This was in the NY Times.
If they had done this, right now there would be about 1.3 million Americans with those tattoos and each year we'd be inking up another 50,000 or so. That includes about 10,000 Straight People of which about 7,500 are African American or Latino and more than half are straight black women. Tattoo you. Not just them. Also you.

This is what Hillary suggests was an era of kindly advocacy and sweet Reagan activism. I'd say America should be very grateful that wiser voices were loudly raised to counter the vile right wing.

Super Christian Mike Huckabee was still pushing for camps in 1992 and he defended that idea in 2012.