Thirty years ago today on June 5, 1981 the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were reported. The disease that was centered in San Francisco was first detected in Los Angeles. Those first ...

Since 1981, AIDS has caused some of the most heart-wrenching moments for our society. Unlike some diseases that snatch life in an instant, AIDS causes our loved ones’ bodies to deteriorate slowly, ...

Thirty years ago, in June 1981, AIDS first appeared in the United States as a recognized condition and for the next 15 years, a diagnosis of AIDS was basically a death sentence. Advances in treatment ...

1981: AIDS is described in an issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 1984: AIDS identified as being caused by a human retrovirus, Human ...

On this day, June 5, 1981, the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reported in the United States. In India, the country's massive health emergency of the smallpox epidemic ...

Since U.S. doctors first described the disease in June 1981, AIDS and the HIV virus that causes it have spread relentlessly from a few widely scattered hot spots to virtually every country in the ...

This Tuesday, the world will mark 20 years of AIDS. It is a ghastly anniversary, especially for San Francisco, where the epidemic touched down early and devastated a generation of gay men. Like a ...

In the summer of 1981, The New York Times published a piece largely believed to be the first major news story about HIV/AIDS. Penned by veteran health reporter and physician Lawrence K. Altman, it was ...

Mr. Dugas, a homosexual flight attendant, has been demonized as being responsible for bringing HIV/AIDS to America’s shores and starting the 1981 AIDS epidemic here, and it has now been convincingly ...

A high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS kicks off at UN headquarters on June 8, aimed at reviewing the progress over the last decade in the fight against HIV/AIDS and charting the course of action till 2015.