For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the discovery of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s, medical organizations have launched outreach campaigns in an effort to educate the public about the disease and how to prevent it. As our ...