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 ...

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 ...

It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease of the 1980s and 1990s is now affecting young people who were not even born when HIV first ...

Jackson’s vocal advocacy caused a shift in both behavior and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. He helped chart a course of action that led to improved prevention and treatments.

In the early 1980s, a mysterious disease plagued several people, predominantly gay men. This disease was later identified as the virus known as the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, also called ...