Read More: Excerpt Part One Excerpt Part TwoTomorrow -- June 5, 2011 -- marks the 30th anniversary of the first recognition of the HIV epidemic. In honor of the occasion, I'm running excerpts from ...

World AIDS Day is commemorated on December 1 every year to raise awareness about the disease among the masses. The idea is to bring people together to show support to people affected and living with ...

LAKELAND | The first reported U.S. cases of the once-mysterious disease now known as AIDS were little more than a blip on the public-health screen on June 5, 1981. Cathy Robinson Pickett, one of Polk ...

In 1981, most Americans were oblivious to an emerging sickness that was overtaking gays. Throughout the spring and summer that year, a mystery would slowly unfold in U.S. metropolitan areas. It was ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health since 1985, led efforts to find a treatment for AIDS at ...

Over the past four decades, UCSF has led the way in its heroic and committed response to the AIDS epidemic, both locally and globally. This timeline covers some of the highlights over the past 40 ...

On this day, June 5, 1981, the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reported in the United States. In India, the country's massive health emergency of the smallpox epidemic ...

More than 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, African Americans represent half of all new cases in the United States. How did we get here? This timeline explores the decades of events leading to ...

First recognized in 1988, World AIDS Day falls on December 1 each year. On this day, people around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who ...

In the summer of 1981, The New York Times published a piece largely believed to be the first major news story about HIV/AIDS. Penned by veteran health reporter and physician Lawrence K. Altman, it was ...