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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The acronym AIDS is redundant, loaded with stigma, and potentially harmful, according to a group of specialists who suggest replacing the term with "advanced HIV." The acronym AIDS has "outlived its ...

In 1983, AIDS hysteria was sweeping the country. This is the story of how a Denver conference empowered a generation—and helped shape a new era of advocacy. A group of marchers carry a “Fighting For ...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic spiked in the 1980s, resulting in the death of over 100,000 people from 1981 to 1990, making an irreversible mark on our world from a social, medical, and political perspective.

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