Since 1988, Dec. 1 has served as World AIDS Day, a day of remembrance and recognition for the tens of millions of people across the globe living with HIV/AIDS—and the tens of millions who have died ...

In 2003, Snopes concluded the frequently repeated claim that AIDS was purposely created by the CIA or some other federal government agency was false. Twenty years later, we decided to revisit and ...

Alysia Abbott was 18 when the first World AIDS Day was observed on December 1, 1988. I was aware of the disease and terrified ...

Every year, World AIDS Day reminds the global community of the ongoing battle against HIV and the importance of awareness, prevention, compassion, and collective responsibility. Marked on 1 December, ...

Word AIDS Day 2025: World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year to raise awareness about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). This day is marked to ...

AIDS likely made the leap from chimpanzees to humans because of a starving World War I soldier who was forced to hunt the animals for food, according to a new book. The unknown “Patient Zero” was part ...

Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon. Solving the ...

An international team of researchers has traced the “epidemic ignition” of HIV/AIDS to 1920s Kinshasa, what is now the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Research findings published ...

I'm pleased to welcome Celeste Watkins-Hayes, the third contributor to our Off the Grid blog. She teaches sociology and African-American Studies at Northwestern, and comes to us at a good time. Her ...

Most people don’t know that a Missouri boy died of what is now believed to have been AIDS more than a decade before the virus ...

World AIDS Day is celebrated every year on December 1st by the global scientific community, physicians, families, and volunteers to remember the victims of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and ...

World AIDS Day 2025 highlights rising risks as progress against HIV stalls amid funding cuts and political barriers. With 40.8 million people affected and 630,000 deaths in 2024, the theme “Rethink, ...