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 ...

Can we eliminate the HIV epidemic? It’s a question that dates back to the start of the epidemic in the 1980s. With 1.3 million new infections a year, the epidemic continues … and the world is not on ...

The first MP to come out as HIV positive has warned that “foolish” government cuts to foreign spending risk sending the Aids pandemic back to the days of the 1980s, when his diagnosis felt like a ...

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 ...

The AIDS epidemic was raging when Pamela Biafora was diagnosed with HIV in 1986. The fear from the diagnosis, which she learned of after donating blood, was almost paralyzing. In the 1980s, a person ...

Can we eliminate the HIV epidemic? It's a question that dates back to the start of the epidemic in the 1980s. With 1.3 million new infections a year, the epidemic continues … and the world is not on ...

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 ...

December 1 is World AIDS Day. Started in 1988, the day is intended to recognize those people who have died from AIDS, those people living with HIV, and the global commitment to finding a vaccine or ...