NEW YORK -- The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A new genetic history of HIV shows how the pandemic almost certainly took root in the ...

This series spans the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the absence of government intervention and the organizers that continue to rally against the virus. From filmmakers Sandy Woodson and Emily ...

A nation that had ignored so many AIDS-related deaths could not ignore Ryan White’s funeral. Held on April 11, 1990, in “the gothic expanse of Second Presbyterian Church” in Meridian Hills, an ...

Every year, National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD) provides an opportunity to highlight the impact of HIV/AIDS on Indigenous communities across the United States. This day focuses on ...

Face of AIDS : the making of an online archive / Martin Kristenson & Fredrik B. Persson -- Witnessing AIDS in the archive / Anna Sofia Rossholm & Beate Schirrmacher -- Voices of AIDS : the HIV virus ...

While many people may not know his name, Gaëtan Dugas, a gay, Canadian flight attendant, has been seen as one of the most central figures involved in the story of how HIV/AIDS came to the United ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...

It wasn't due to a lack of treatments. In the '90s, effective medications had been developed that made HIV a manageable condition rather than a death sentence. But these drugs were available almost ...