Panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display at Queermunity in Uptown seek to highlight the stories of those lost to HIV/AIDS ...

In a session at AIDS 2024, the International AIDS Conference, global leaders and community advocates gathered to discuss why stigma and shame continue to attach themselves to an HIV diagnosis and why ...

With active HIV cases rising to about 66,606, Karnataka is expanding awareness and counselling programmes, among young adults ...

Speaking at the 16th International Aids Conference in 2006, the then UNAids executive director, Peter Piot, remarked: "Since the beginning of the epidemic, stigma, discrimination and gender inequality ...

HIV stigma, rooted in the 1980s, persists, affecting care and prevention efforts despite treatment advancements. Stigma manifests as discrimination and isolation, impacting those at higher risk due to ...

GLAAD released its annual State of HIV Stigma report Thursday, which tracks knowledge, attitudes, and sentiment around HIV and HIV stigma across the U.S. Among GLAAD’s findings was that most Americans ...

Failing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult—if not impossible—to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers University study.

SAN ANTONIO – Science has come a long way since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the U.S. 40 years ago. There are now medications taken once daily which not only prevent HIV, the virus that ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first used the term “AIDS” on Sept. 24, 1982, more than a year after the first cases appeared in medical records. Those early years of the crisis were ...

“HIV lives with me — I am not living with HIV,” Saul Villalobos said. Villalobos, a Venezuelan immigrant and case manager at OASIS Florida, an HIV testing center and care facility in Pensacola, still ...

Eighteen years ago, Chatrivia Kennedy learned she was HIV positive when her partner was hospitalized with an HIV-related illness. She was eight months pregnant. She suffered in silence for many years, ...

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