The acronym AIDS is redundant, loaded with stigma, and potentially harmful, according to a group of specialists who suggest replacing the term with "advanced HIV." The acronym AIDS has "outlived its ...

2: The CDC AIDS Definition: Implications of the CD4 + ~336K 3: The Use of the CDC Definition of AIDS in Social Security Disability Determinations ~164K ...

More than 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, African Americans represent half of all new cases in the United States. How did we get here? This timeline explores the decades of events leading to ...

HIV positive t-shirts have been distributed to reduce the stigma attached to the disease. This would have been unthinkable 30 years ago. Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters The dominant narratives linked to the ...

In June of 1981, an astute team of clinicians led by Michael Gottlieb reported an unusual occurrence in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication led by the US Centers for Disease ...

The panel planned to study in some detail the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in several locales as part of an effort to understand the localized dimensions of the epidemic. Our plan had been to focus ...