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History of HIV and AIDS
ACT UP 'Die-In' at New York Public Library AIDS Exhibit

ACT UP members said they were supportive of the library’s effort to honor the history of AIDS advocacy, but held a protest on the floor of Astor Hall and on the library steps to make the collective statement that “AIDS Is Not History” and should not be memorialized as if it were

Published
10 October 2013
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Poz magazine news
HIV in the arts and media
Liberace AIDS Film Gets 11 Emmy Awards

The film depicts the life and death of the gay pianist and his love affair with a younger man.

Published
24 September 2013
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Poz magazine news
How to Whitewash a Plague

A review of the New York Historical Society’s current exhibition “AIDS in New York: The First Five Years” suggests that someone without prior knowledge of the epidemic could easily leave without understanding the bitter, hard-fought battles that activists waged to gain treatment.

Published
06 August 2013
From
New York Times
Tuberculosis and HIV
Book Review: The Plague That Refuses to Go Away

Jasmine Grenier and Madhukar Pai from McGill University review “Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis” by Helen Bynum.

Published
16 May 2013
From
PLoS Blogs (blog)
History of HIV and AIDS
AIDS 'Patient Zero' was a publicity strategy, scholar writes

The 1987 New York Post headline - THE MAN WHO GAVE US AIDS - was arguably one of the most influential of all time. "Patient Zero" - a promiscuous gay Canadian flight attendant - had spread AIDS from coast to coast. The story sparked sensational media coverage, drove a book onto the best-seller lists, pushed the "gay disease" onto mainstream America's radar screen, and helped jump-start an activist movement. It was also wrong.

Published
22 April 2013
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Philly.com
History of HIV and AIDS
NEW YORK: Historical Society Exhibition to Explore the Early Days of AIDS

This summer, the New York Historical Society will mount an exhibition titled “AIDS in New York: The First Five Years,” which will focus on the early years of AIDS in New York City. Comprised of diaries, ephemera such as clinician’s notes and photographs, and both audio and video clips, the exhibition will examine the impact of the disease from the first days of rumors of a “gay plague” in 1981 through 1986.

Published
15 March 2013
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
HIV in the arts and media
The Plague Years, in Film and Memory

What it's like when the worst years of your life get rolled up into an Oscar-nominated documentary.

Published
26 February 2013
From
The Atlantic
Behaviour change interventions
Saving Safe Sex: An Interview With Richard Berkowitz

The writer of the first safer sex manifesto for gay men talks about PrEP, gay culture and the profile documentary Sex Positive.

Published
19 February 2013
From
Huffington Post (blog)
HIV in the arts and media
Oscar nominations: AIDS film How to Survive a Plague gets nod for best documentary

The movie, directed by David France, tells the story of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and gives viewers a front-row seat to the epic day-to-day battles that ultimately resulted in AIDS no longer being a death sentence.

Published
10 January 2013
From
Gay Star News
History of HIV and AIDS
Life Behind the Picture: The Photo That Changed The Face Of AIDS

In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths. The haunting image of Kirby on his death bed quickly became the one photograph most powerfully identified with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Published
03 December 2012
From
Life
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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