Posts by John Callaghan

Members of AIDS activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) hold up signs at a protest at the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 11, 1988 in Rockville, Maryland. The action, called SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FDA by the group, shut down the FDA for the day. (Photo by Catherine McGann/Getty Images)

HIV/AIDS: A Crisis on Pause

During his keynote address at the World AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last year, former US president ...

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From the Frontlines of the War on HIV & AIDS

I recently told my mother that I was HIV-­positive. I had wanted to tell her for years, wanted to b...

After Silence, a Ringing Reminder

This is the story of the group of six people who orig­inally produced the iconic Si lence = Death, ...

How To Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

It has been more than 20 years since the introduction of the first-generation antiretroviral therap...