It is almost unimaginable how far we have come from the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981, and the mortality rate increased every ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — In the late 1980s during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Gary Cheatham started doing laundry for his friends who were sick with a virus that had already killed thousands.

The search for a "Patient Zero"--Popularly understood to be an epidemic's first infected case--has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the ...

One of the first prime-time television depictions of HIV/AIDS was a 1983 episode of the medical drama St. Elsewhere. Set in Boston’s fictional St. Eligius Hospital, the episode “AIDS and Comfort,” ...