HIV

Vivek Murthy's Advice Against Social Media Use for Kids Latest in Surgeon General Warnings

While past surgeons general succeeded in warning the public away from cigarettes and drunk driving, other public health issues have been more difficult subjects for persuasion. 

Comparing Unvaccinated Kyrie Irving to HIV-Positive Magic Johnson? Not So Fast

"Shut up and dribble" falls by the wayside when right-wing media figures can make a convenient ally out of a prominent athlete. 

Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis

Washington journalist Karen Tumulty writes that Nancy Reagan worked against the demands of social conservatives to ask her husband's administration to pay attention to the AIDS crisis, but her efforts weren't enough. 

The Original Shock of AIDS in “It’s a Sin”

The British show "It's a Sin" reconstructs the emergence of AIDS in London through the story of a group of flatmates working to reconcile fear and affirmation. 

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Reminds Us of the Deep Costs of Inequality

by Dan Royles

"This history shows us that biomedical interventions such as antiretrovirals to treat HIV or the vaccine against the coronavirus yield some progress in the fight against epidemic disease, but do little to alter the underlying inequities that make some communities more vulnerable to illness in the first place."

What Dr. Fauci and Others Learned About Battling Covid-19 from the Fight Against AIDS (Video)

The AIDS pandemic was marked by a slow response and a lack of clear public health messages and testing. Despite those lessons, we were still unprepared for Covid-19.

Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of “murder” and “genocide” recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency.

Trump’s Attacks on the WHO Evoke Nostalgia for George W. Bush

by Jeffrey J. Matthews

George W. Bush's promotion of cooperative international health initiaitves to fight HIV-AIDS is a bright spot in his presidential legacy.

The Epidemics America Got Wrong

by Jim Downs

Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country, argues history professor Jim Downs.

Coronavirus: Three Lessons from the AIDS Crisis

by Laurie Marhoefer

The U.S. made serious mistakes when the HIV virus and AIDS emerged. Those errors cost many lives. But our nation learned a few things, too.

We Can’t Forget Women as We Tell The Story of COVID-19

by Jennifer Brier

Women who have been medical (and political) subjects of HIV/AIDS also have much to teach us during our current pandemic.

The Beginning of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic – and One Doctor's Search for a Cure

by Seema Yasmin

It was unparalleled, this confluence of public health, politics, clinical medicine, and public anxiety. The unknown disease was spreading faster than imagined. Humanity had never seen anything like it.