For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...

December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day observance. An estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since 1981. Up Against the ...

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...

Mission Local has even more matching funds! Every dollar you give in June is doubled until we hit $85,000! About 65% of our revenue comes from individuals like you — help support a growing local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World AIDS Day is December 1 When Dec. 1 was declared World AIDS Day in 1988, the way the world thought and talked about that ...

The illness that came to be known as AIDS made its first appearance in the medical literature on June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for ...

This week’s film is David Weissman’s We Were Here, which deals with the impact of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. It will air on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 10 PM ...

Its been more than 30 years since the first cases of HIV and AIDS were diagnosed and reported and in that time, public awareness has increased and so has the possibility of a cure. The stigma attached ...

OSIRE REFUGEE CAMP, Namibia, November 30 (UNHCR) - The 16-year-old refugee boy who inspired the UN refugee agency's poster for this year's World AIDS Day knows from personal experience the problems ...

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...