That changed with the AIDS epidemic, the first major infectious disease threat in more than a generation. AIDS arrived as American politics took a sharp conservative turn with the election of ...
A generation has passed since the world saw the peak in AIDS-related deaths. Those deaths—agonizing, from diseases or infections the body might otherwise fight off—sent loved ones into the ...
Dr. Rachel Bender Ignacio is a physician-scientist who specializes in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, focusing on HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. With a background in epidemiology and ...
Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...