The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first used the term “AIDS” on Sept. 24, 1982, more than a year after the first cases appeared in medical records. Those early years of the crisis were ...

Every major pharmaceutical breakthrough in the past 40 years started with taxpayer-funded basic research: mRNA vaccines, ...

Since 1988, Dec. 1 has served as World AIDS Day, a day of remembrance and recognition for the tens of millions of people across the globe living with HIV/AIDS—and the tens of millions who have died ...

As the world observes HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, attention turns to education, stigma reduction, and empowering communities to ...

The story of the AIDS movement is one of regular people: students, bartenders, stay-at-home mothers, teachers, retired lawyers, immigrants, Catholic nuns, newly out gay men who had just arrived in New ...

Nurse practitioners discuss evidence-based cancer screening and risk-reduction strategies that primary care clinicians can implement for patients with HIV.

There are 1.1 million people in the U.S. with AIDS. Today, there are an estimated 1.1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With ...

Alysia Abbott was 18 when the first World AIDS Day was observed on December 1, 1988. I was aware of the disease and terrified ...

Carlton V. Bell II won second place in GLAAD + STARZ TV Pilot Pitch Competition with a series that will destigmatize HIV.

Elizabeth Taylor’s estate has learned that her AIDS activism included both public-facing and private work Jeffrey Markowitz/Sygma via Getty Elizabeth Taylor was enough of a public figure for her ...

World AIDS Day 2025 reflects on Black Americans’ disproportionate HIV impact, lost artists, threats to PrEP access, and the ongoing fight against stigma.

In July 1985, more than 4,000 people gathered in their walking shoes at California’s Paramount Studios, bound by a cause that until then had largely existed in the shadows. Their grassroots motivation ...