December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day observance. An estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since 1981. Up Against the ...

For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...

In the early 1980s, as AIDS ravaged the gay community in the U.S., two people emerged as the epidemic's first “poster boy” ...

The illness that came to be known as AIDS made its first appearance in the medical literature on June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for ...

When Dec. 1 was declared World AIDS Day in 1988, the way the world thought and talked about that disease was very different from the way things are now. Atwater began collecting the posters in the ...

Discover a quarter-century’s worth of AIDS Awareness campaigns from across the globe at The Wolfsonian Museum (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), which received a donation by Harry S. Hacker of more ...

OSIRE REFUGEE CAMP, Namibia, November 30 (UNHCR) - The 16-year-old refugee boy who inspired the UN refugee agency's poster for this year's World AIDS Day knows from personal experience the problems ...

Outraged Catholics in Taipei have succeeded in having an offensive ad pulled, reported AFP. The ad, which was part of an anti-AIDS campaign, featured a woman dressed as a nun, holding a condom and ...

Last weekend, communities nationwide marked Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, or NBHAAD, during an urgent time for people living with the disease and those who support them. More than four decades after ...

University Gallery presents a satellite exhibition in collaboration with Memorial Art Gallery’s “Up Against the Wall” main exhibition, March 6 - June 19, 2022. The 42 HIV/AIDS posters in the RIT ...