Most people don’t know that a Missouri boy died of what is now believed to have been AIDS more than a decade before the virus ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "Cashing Out," a 40-minute documentary from GLAAD Award--nominated filmmaker Matt Nadel, premieres today on The New Yorker's platforms, uncovering a hidden ...

An estimated 40.8 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and it killed about 630,000 people last year. View on ...

Wednesday marks World AIDS Day, a global event observed on December 1 every year calling people to unite in the fight against HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), which can lead to AIDS (acquired ...

Alysia Abbott was 18 when the first World AIDS Day was observed on December 1, 1988. I was aware of the disease and terrified ...

For people who grew up in an America where it felt like HIV/AIDS had always existed, it can be hard to imagine just how quickly the at-first-unknown virus arrived and spread in the United States — ...

For Eric Sawyer, the 40th anniversary of the first scientific report that described AIDS as a new disease brings up “a dichotomy of feelings.” When Sawyer, who was living in New York, first began ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. Recently, I posted a story on Instagram about Sarah Schulman’s ...

To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it. There’s an entire generation of queer men missing from the present-day frame, and many of those ...

Every year, World AIDS Day reminds the global community of the ongoing battle against HIV and the importance of awareness, prevention, compassion, and collective responsibility. Marked on 1 December, ...

The first time I met someone in China dying from complications of AIDS, he had never heard of the illness that had already killed thousands of his fellow citizens. This was not the early 1980s, when ...

For people who grew up in an America where it felt like HIV/AIDS had always existed, it can be hard to imagine just how quickly the at-first-unknown virus arrived and spread in the United States — ...