It took Dr. Marcus Conant less than two years of retirement to realize it wasn’t for him. He moved to a small apartment in New York City when he stopped working in 2019 with plans of spending his old ...

The search for a "Patient Zero"--Popularly understood to be an epidemic's first infected case--has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the ...

AIDS patients who wanted housing and legal help needed specialized providers in the 1980s. Fenway Health is betting that’s no longer true. In the 1980s, finding housing wasn’t easy for a gay man with ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Most people don’t know that a Missouri boy died of what is now believed to have been AIDS more than a decade before the virus was officially identified. In late 1968, Robert Rayford ...

Dr. Alina Alonso started her public health career in the 1980s helping HIV/AIDS patients in New York and ended it fighting COVID-19 in Palm Beach County. In between, she fought several deadly health ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a project recognizing LGBTQ+ people who have shaped Washington ahead of the 50th anniversary of Seattle Pride. To read more, click here. In the heart of Capitol ...

I think of the years from 1982 until the late 1980s as the "dark years" of my medical career. The growing monster of the AIDS epidemic did not allow me ever to fully separate from my work. There was ...