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The battle against AIDS was waged on the streets
This undated French poster is titled “The Stand.” The University of Rochester is home to one of the largest collections of AIDS posters in the world. Donated by physician and medical historian Edward C. Atwater, who died in 2019, the collection currently encompasses more than 8,000 posters spanning 40 years.
The battle against AIDS was waged on the streets
The University of Rochester is home to one of the largest collections of AIDS posters in the world. Donated by physician and medical historian Edward C. Atwater, who died in 2019, the collection currently encompasses more than 8,000 posters spanning 40 years.
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America
Connexions Histories of Race and Sex in North America New ways of viewing the tableau of history Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert team of editors curates thought-provoking articles that explore how to view the American past through the lens of race and sexuality studies.
Perspective | What World AIDS Day reminds us during the covid-19 pandemic
Dec. 1, 2020 is the first World AIDS Day commemorated since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. As the country focuses on the rollout of covid-19 vaccines to address the devastating public health crisis of 2020, Tuesday offers an opportunity to reflect on the very real persistence of HIV/AIDS. In fact, 40 years after its first appearance, AIDS is still firmly implanted in our present moment; and medicine, alone, will never be the silver bullet to end disease and ill health.
Perspective | We can’t forget women as we tell the story of covid-19
As the coronavirus spreads, all eyes are on the actions and recommendations of the Coronavirus Task Force, led by Vice President Michael Pence. He has relied on the experiences and expertise of two doctors, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Brix, both of whom have responded to public health crises before. Since the 1980s, Fauci figured prominently in debates about how best to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and Brix led President Obama’s response to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
What World AIDS Day should celebrate this year
Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day. Since 1988, World AIDS Day has worked to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, including generating efforts to prevent the spread of HIV and support those living with HIV. This year’s World AIDS Day theme, “Communities make the difference,” is intentionally broad, and suggests that ordinary people, in addition to health care providers, must be part of an effective response to HIV/AIDS.
Film 'Nothing Without Us' Documents the Women Who Literally Redefined AIDS and Its Activism
In the United States and various African countries, Black women such as Katrina Haslip (pictured) have long been on the vanguard of raising awareness about how women were uniquely affected by HIV and AIDS, which were once thought to be gay men's conditions. Women Make Movies In 1990, almost a decade into the AIDS epidemic, activists demanded that the definition of AIDS change to reflect the way it attacked the female body.
Setting the Record Straight: Five Misconceptions About the Trump Rally in Chicago
Donald Trump supporters and protesters confront one another after his campaign rally was canceled at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, March 11, 2016. (Photo: Joshua Lott / The New York Times) In the wake of the electoral victories of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in Illinois' primary elections this Tuesday, onlookers nationwide are surely wondering what role the enormous March 11 anti-Trump protest played in shaping this course of events.
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