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HIV vs. AIDS: How they differ and why early treatment matters

HIV is a virus that weakens the immune system over time. AIDS is the most severe phase of HIV when the immune system is badly damaged. Early treatment can stop HIV from turning into AIDS. HIV and AIDS ...
University of Delaware

HIV/AIDS: What Parents Need to Know

Does it seem like your child knows more about HIV/AIDS than you do? Although children learn about AIDS in school and from their friends, parents have a very important job in helping their children ...
USA Today

Nation's first AIDS walk marches toward 40: What we've learned and what we've forgotten

In July 1985, more than 4,000 people gathered in their walking shoes at California’s Paramount Studios, bound by a cause that until then had largely existed in the shadows. Their grassroots motivation ...
Time

On World AIDS Day, Those Who Fought the 1980s Epidemic Find Striking Differences and Tragic Parallels in COVID-19

Staff Writer More than three decades after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 1988, the world’s leading global health organization faces another public ...
LGBTQ Nation

These 3 lessons from the AIDS epidemic show how Black communities can combat HIV under Trump

The first reported cases of what would be known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) included five white men and two Black men, one from Haiti and the other from Los Angeles. Though HIV was a mystery ...