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 ...

Demonstrators, many with signs, participate in a die-in organized by ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), in Foley Square in New York City, Oct. 16, 1990. They lie around a coffin the reads 'Ryan ...

Princess Diana opened the first dedicated ward for patients with AIDS and HIV-related diseases at London's Middlesex Hospital in 1987. John Shelley Collection / Avalon / Getty Images Five artists have ...

Artist Anya Gallaccio has been selected to create London’s first memorial to those affected by HIV/AIDS. Her winning proposal takes the form of cross-section of a tree trunk with some of the inner ...

The Palm Springs AIDS Memorial has been nearly a decade in the making, with challenges in finding the right design. News Channel 3 got an exclusive first look at the memorial's new design, which aims ...

The controversy that preceded this week's community town hall about the HIV/AIDS memorial planned for Palm Springs was front and center from the moment the 50 or so attendees arrived. Upon entering ...

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 ...

In the early 1980s, as AIDS ravaged the gay community in the U.S., two people emerged as the first “poster boy” and “poster mom” of the epidemic — even as celebrities shied away from the cause and ...