06-05-2019Cross-posted from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services BlogBiomedical research has brought us a long way since June 1981, when the first cases of the…
05-29-2017Cross-posted from NIH NewsroomMuch progress has been made in HIV/AIDS research since the disease was first recognized in 1981. Today, lifesaving antiretroviral…
12-01-2016This year, the world marked the 35th anniversary of the first published reports of what would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. This disease has wrought enormous…
06-09-2016About 100 demonstrators protested on the steps of New York's City Hall on Friday, Nov. 15, 1985 as a City Council committee considered legislation to bar…
11-30-2015When the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were reported in 1981, scientists and physicians did not know the cause and had no therapies to treat…
06-01-2015The question of when to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) during the course of HIV infection has been debated for years, yet a conclusive answer has…
12-02-2014Remarkable progress has been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS since the first annual World AIDS Day was commemorated 26 years ago. Yet, we are still far from…
12-20-2013Twenty years ago, when most HIV/AIDS patients were men, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), observing…
11-27-2013In the 25 years that have passed since the first annual commemoration of World AIDS Day, extraordinary scientific progress has been made in the fight against…
03-08-2013Dr. Anthony Fauci Dr. Carl DieffenbachOn Monday, March 4, 2013, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, Dr. Deborah…
06-14-2012Next month, the International AIDS Conference returns to Washington, D.C., where it was last held in 1987. One of us (ASF) had the privilege of speaking at the…