The most visceral pieces in Brooklyn-based artist and activist Hunter Reynolds’s solo show Survival AIDS at Lower East Side nonprofit art space Participant Inc. are not, as one might expect, the blood ...
Stories have power. We tell stories so we’re seen and heard. We tell stories to pass down knowledge and history. We tell stories to heal. Projects that document those stories capture them for future ...
Thirty years ago, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. But thanks to the tenacity of vociferous activists and the life-saving treatments whose development they helped expedite, many, though not all ...
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You ...
As we begin to focus on the psychological impact of all the illness and death in the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s much we can learn from the still-ongoing HIV-AIDS pandemic whose 40th anniversary we ...
How does the immune system respond when an infection attacks the body? In this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Surviving AIDS" Web site, you're put in charge of destroying a virus -- in this case, ...
World AIDS Day is a day for those who have been affected by HIV and AIDS to come together and remember those we’ve lost. Program Coordinator for Sisters With a Voice Marcella Spruell joins Portia at ...
It’s an Achilles’ heel of HIV therapy: The AIDS virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, despite today’s best medicines. Now scientists are beginning to test drugs that may protect against ...
Nkosi Johnson died a hero in the battle against AIDS in Africa, but he was not a martyr. Martyrs are those who choose death in pursuit or in defense of their beliefs, but 12-year-old Nkosi did not ...
In February 2001, Dr. Robert Zackin became the first HIV-infected individual to receive a heart transplant. A biostatistician whose research focus is HIV, Dr. Zackin was the senior author of the paper ...