This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You ...

A nation that had ignored so many AIDS-related deaths could not ignore Ryan White’s funeral. Held on April 11, 1990, in “the gothic expanse of Second Presbyterian Church” in Meridian Hills, an ...

Nov. 7, 1991, Magic Johnson announced his sudden retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers after testing positive for HIV, the ...

To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it. There’s an entire generation of queer men missing from the present-day frame, and many of those ...

Wednesday marks World AIDS Day, a global event observed on December 1 every year calling people to unite in the fight against HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), which can lead to AIDS (acquired ...

Forty years ago this month, the CDC reported on patients with HIV/AIDS in the United States for the very first time. In the years since, LGBTQIA+ Americans have been fighting for treatment and ...

A video showing Princess Diana's historic act of shaking hands with an HIV/AIDS patient while the stigma surrounding the virus was high in the 1980s has gone viral on TikTok. The video, which has ...

Shawn Griffin remembers his first — and subsequently last — attempt to ask his doctor to prescribe him PrEP. Griffin, a gay Black man, had hoped to be prescribed pre-exposure prophylaxis medication, ...

When 55-year-old Ken Pinkela was first navigating his coming out process as a gay man, the community he emerged into was no stranger to crisis. In the throes of deadly HIV infections, gay men turned ...

Face of AIDS : the making of an online archive / Martin Kristenson & Fredrik B. Persson -- Witnessing AIDS in the archive / Anna Sofia Rossholm & Beate Schirrmacher -- Voices of AIDS : the HIV virus ...

On November 7, 1991, NBA legend Magic Johnson shocked the world when he announced his HIV diagnosis and his retirement from ...

I clipped Randy Shilts’s obituary from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and carefully placed it inside my copy of And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic – his most famous, most ...