Anniversary

06-08-2021Cross-posted from U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsOn June 5, 1985, the first Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) to mention what would later become…

06-07-2021Cross-posted from the U.S. Department of State Press Office[Originally posted on June 5, 2021]Forty years ago, on June 5th, the Centers for Disease Control and…

06-04-2021Cross-posted from SAMHSAJune 5th marks 40 years since the first five cases of what later became known as AIDS were officially reported by the U.S. Centers for…

06-06-2019Cross-posted from National Prevention Information Network, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention On this day in 1981, CDC published an MMWR on the first…

06-05-2019On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article describing the first cases of what would come to be known as AIDS. Today…

06-05-2018June 5 is an important anniversary in the history of HIV and AIDS in the United States. On this date in 1981 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

11-23-2015As some readers of this blog may already know, at the end of next month I will retire from the federal government after 27 years of service. I don’t plan to…

10-05-2011In the sixth and final video of our 30 Years of AIDS series, Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, talks about his experiences spanning from…

09-19-2011In the fifth installment of our continuing six-week video series discusses the early years of research and response to HIV/AIDS, the uncertainty of its cause,…

09-12-2011In our fourth installment of our six-week video series, Black AIDS Institute President, Founder, and CEO Phill Wilson discusses his experiences over the past…

09-06-2011In the third installment of our six-week video series, Trust for America's Health Executive Director Dr. Jeffrey Levi discusses 30 years of AIDS in the United…

08-29-2011In the second of our six-week video series founder Dázon Dixon Diallo, MPH, discusses 30 years of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. In this video, Ms. Dixon Diallo talks…

07-05-2011One month ago, June 5, 2011 commemorated 30 years of AIDS in the U.S. Much has changed since 1981 (see this timeline for a history of AIDS). Not only has the…

06-29-2011Recently, I learned of two complementary exhibits at the National Museum of American History entitled, HIV and AIDS Thirty Years Ago and Archiving the…

06-20-2011Did you know that the Veterans Health Administration is the largest single provider of HIV care in the United States, providing care for more than 24,000…

06-07-2011In commemoration of 30 Years of AIDS, we are sharing the personal stories of colleagues and community members who have been around since the very beginning of…

06-06-2011Yesterday marked thirty years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States. This Wednesday, June 8th at 10am EST, the Secretary of Health…

06-02-2011Yesterday, Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Jeffrey Crowley and Director of the Division of AIDS…

05-31-2011On Wednesday June 1, 2011 at 3 p.m. EDT, Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Jeffrey Crowley and…