Back to the Fore
After two years of focusing on COVID-19 pandemic response, the Biden administration is renewing attention to other ongoing public health challenges, including HIV and AIDS. The response is led by...
View ArticleStories from the Edge of a Pandemic
June 5, 1981, marks the official start of what is now known as the HIV and AIDS pandemic. That’s because it was on that day that the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) first mentioned a...
View ArticleWalk On – Looking Back on AidsWalk
Every spring, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life, from across the country and around the world, gather together in Central Park, New York City, and participate in the AIDS Walk New York...
View ArticleYilong Liu: Advocate & Writer
Time Misbehaves Yilong Liu Discusses His New HIV-Themed Work, PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute & the Importance of Queer History by Chael Needle In PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute, playwright Yilong Liu...
View ArticleDining Out For Life 2022
Dining Out For Life Returns to Fifty+ Cities After two years of being curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dining Out For Life returns to in-person dining for their twenty-sixth annual fundraising...
View ArticleLove Rocks NYC Raises Over $3 Million
Love Rocks NYC In years past at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, God’s Love We Deliver has put on an exciting benefit concert with a roster of musical acts that, well, rocks! This year, the sixth...
View ArticleVisual AIDS Announces New Research Fellowship
Visual AIDS Announces New Research Fellowship Visual AIDS announced a new research fellowship program to support original writing and scholarship about artists who are living with or were lost to...
View ArticleMuwonge Gerald • Foaster Foundation for Healthcare Uganda
A Champion for Youth Muwonge Gerald Discusses the Struggles and Successes of the Foaster Foundation for Healthcare Uganda’s Efforts to Help Youth Affected by HIV/AIDS by Chael Needle In a Valentine’s...
View ArticleBack-to-HIV Rally and Die-In in SF
Back-to-HIV Rally and Die-In Make HIV a priority again and address the impact of COVID on people with HIV—that’s the message that Bay Area activists and organizations want to send on March 21, from 11...
View ArticleLailani Muniz: Advocate
Access Routes Advocate Lailani Muniz Discusses the Impact of HIV on Women and How to Navigate Healthcare Barriers by Chael Needle Photo courtesy L. Muniz If you look at the health disparities that...
View ArticleClaire Gasamagera Channels Her Advocacy on YouTube
The Importance of the Slow Lane Claire Gasamagera Uses Social Media Video to Bring HIV Advice to Women by Chael Needle Claire Gasamagera. Photo courtesy C. Gasamagera As an activist, Claire Gasamagera...
View ArticleJeffrey Long: Advocate
Giving Back Jeffrey Long Talks with A&U’s Chael Needle About Dedicating His Life with Advocacy Health comes first, as HIV/AIDS advocate Jeffrey Long knows. But health is intertwined with advocacy,...
View ArticleBroadway Cares Awards $2.5 Million to Food & Meal Programs
BC/EFA Awards $2.5 Million to Food & Meal Programs Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has awarded a record $2,532,500 in grants to 127 food service and meal delivery programs in thirty-seven states,...
View ArticleAFC Releases Racial Equity Action Plan
AFC Releases Racial Equity Action Plan On February 7, 2022, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, AIDS Foundation Chicago released its first Racial Equity Action Plan. The three-year plan aims “to...
View ArticleTyler TerMeer: Advocate
True Resilience Tyler TerMeer, PhD, the new CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation, talks about leadership, HIV/AIDS, and navigating “dueling pandemics” by Alina Oswald “As you flip the page to a new...
View ArticleBroadway Cares Receives Largest Gift Ever
BC/EFA Receives Largest Gift Ever As 2021 ended, the Fred Ebb Foundation, founded by legendary lyricist Fred Ebb, awarded $2.6 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the foundation’s largest...
View ArticleEmily Wells: Musician & Advocate
Regards to the End Composer & Musician Emily Wells Creates a Musical Dialogue Between Artists on the Front Lines of the Early AIDS Pandemic and Queer Contemporary Life by Chael Needle “David has a...
View ArticleReunión Latina 2022: Register Now!
Reunión Latina 2022 Registration for the Reunión Latina 2022, an annual two-day training institute that focuses on how to rethink and respond to HIV, viral hepatitis, STIs, stigma, and other health...
View ArticleBetty White Kept Me Sane During the Early AIDS Pandemic
Your Heart Is True Betty White & the Golden Girls Kept Me and My Friends Sane During the Early AIDS Pandemic by John Francis Leonard Betty White, THE PROPOSAL premiere, 2009. Photo by Angela...
View ArticleTribute: Richard Garcia
Tribute Richard Garcia (1951-2021) We were devastated to learn that (Louis) Richard Garcia had died this past Halloween. We offer our condolences to his partner, Tim Brockhum, and his younger sister,...
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