The following is an excerpt from the new book "The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America" by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels ...

Indiana teen Ryan White was banned from school following an AIDS diagnosis in 1984, which led to his death five years later.

You couldn't tell the difference between him and the bedsheets. It was just horrible.” This was the first time she would encounter a person dying from AIDS, but it wouldn't be the last. Over the next ...

The early history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic wouldn’t be complete without the voices of the many lesbians who cared for their gay and bi brothers as they lay dying. Like the men whose hands they held, ...

World AIDS Day was created in 1988 by the World Health Organization as an international commemoration of those we have lost to HIV/AIDS and to celebrate the advancements we have achieved in education, ...

Editor's note: This story originally ran April 7, 2020, to mark the 30th anniversary of Ryan White's death. The trampled grass in the front yard of that modest home in Cicero was a collage of ...