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New HIV diagnoses in Chicago hit record low

It appears Chicago is winning the fight against HIV. Chicago saw a 55-percent decrease in people newly diagnosed with the virus in 2016 compared to 2011.

Published
13 August 2018
From
WLS-TV Chicago
History of HIV and AIDS
Dead of AIDS and Forgotten in Potter’s Field

At the end of a clearing on Hart Island, an island off the Bronx where New York City buries its unclaimed dead, is a section where people who died of AIDS were buried during the height of the epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Published
09 July 2018
From
New York Times
History of HIV and AIDS
These LGBTQ campaigners are fundraising for the UK’s first national AIDS memorial

The AIDS Memory UK campaign aims to raise £7,500 towards a national tribute to remember those who have died from the syndrome in Britain.

Published
04 July 2018
From
PinkNews
People and personal stories
The AIDS Memorial on Instagram Has Become a Must-Read Remembrance of Those We’ve Lost

What this brilliant and crucial accounting of lives does is simple: It asks us to engage with each and every person’s story, so that we can honor them and what they went through with dignity and respect. The AIDS Memorial represents the best of what can happen when something most of us use every single day—Instagram—is turned into a powerful means to mourn, remember, and learn.

Published
29 June 2018
From
Vogue
People and personal stories
The HIV-positive man who stopped thousands getting the virus

Greg Owen wanted a new drug, not available through the NHS, that would stop him becoming HIV-positive. But it was too late - he already had the virus. Despite this, he and a friend worked on an ambitious plan to help thousands of others get the new treatment.

Published
29 June 2018
From
BBC
People and personal stories
First doctor to prescribe ARVs forced to leave South Africa

A seven-year battle with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has left legendary French HIV expert Dr Francoise Louis with no choice but to leave the country.

Published
27 June 2018
From
Health-e News
History of HIV and AIDS
Punishment: AIDS in the Shadow of an American Institution

An excerpt from the introduction to Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness. From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment.

Published
27 June 2018
From
POZ
People and personal stories
This Doctor Was One Of The First To Identify AIDS. Now He's Making His Debut As A Composer At 85.

Joseph Sonnabend's clinic in New York was on the front line of the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Writing music to cope "was like walking into another world", he told BuzzFeed News.

Published
25 June 2018
From
BuzzFeed News
History of HIV and AIDS
“Buddies” Remains an Urgently Moving Study of Life and Death in the AIDS Era

For a stretch of time in the 1980s and ’90s, the word buddy meant, in modern gay life, someone who had agreed to be a friend to a man dying of AIDS. A buddy visited. Listened to stories. Told stories. Laughed. Cried. And above all, tried to make sure that the frail man in the bed knew that he had not been forgotten. That his passing would be noted. And mourned. In the 1985 film Buddies, writer-director Arthur J. Bressan Jr. did a simple yet radical thing: He told the story of one such friendship and, in the process, made the first feature-length drama about AIDS.

Published
19 June 2018
From
Village Voice
History of HIV and AIDS
The Whitewashed History of HIV: A Black Teen Died of AIDS in 1969

The story of Robert Rayford symbolizes how the story of HIV has been told through a white lens — for nearly 50 years.

Published
15 June 2018
From
The Advocate
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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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