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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 40 years after HIV/AIDS was first detected, more than 30 million have died. AIDS Activist Group Co-Founder Reflects On World AIDS Day, Progress Made Since The 1980s This World AIDS Day serves ...

It took Dr. Marcus Conant less than two years of retirement to realize it wasn’t for him. He moved to a small apartment in New York City when he stopped working in 2019 with plans of spending his old ...

Learn about the medical advancements and challenges faced by older adults living with HIV. Experts and survivors share their insights.

Baker was an early advocate for those living with HIV and AIDS during the 1980s when misinformation and fear-mongering about the disease was rampant. A. Cornelius Baker, a tireless advocate for HIV ...

Fewer people contracted HIV last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that this decline was still far too slow. Around 1.3 ...

Mortality from infectious diseases in the United States has remained essentially stable from 1980 through 2014, according to a report published in the November 22/29 issue of JAMA. Overall infectious ...