What is the history of the AIDS epidemic, when did treatment become widely available, and what are the current goals for ending this epidemic? In 2023, an estimated 39.9 million people around the ...

The story of one of the most devastating public health emergencies of our time. In the early 1980s, a mysterious wave of illnesses emerged. Strange infections. Rare cancers. Mostly in young men.

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 ...

Research into this new way of treating HIV is only beginning. When it was first named in 1983, HIV was thought to be a death sentence. The virus replicated rapidly in the people it infected because ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. A twice-yearly injection of a drug known as lenacapavir offered ...

The Trump administration's funding cuts to PEPFAR and USAID disrupted global HIV treatment and prevention, threatening progress made over decades. Lenacapavir's FDA approval as a long-acting ...