As the AIDS.gov blog has often noted, in 2011 the world observed a profound milestone: the 30-year anniversary of the first reported cases of what came to be known as AIDS. To put this milestone in perspective, the journal AIDS Education and Prevention recently published a commentary by Dr. Ronald Valdiserri, Deputy Assistant Secretary for…
Sharing Milestones Online
March 12, 2012 • 0 comments • By Miguel Gomez, Director, AIDS.gov, and Senior Communications Advisor, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Road to AIDS 2012 Town Hall Meetings Kick Off
October 13, 2011 • 0 comments • By Jennie Anderson, AIDS.gov Communications Advisor
and Mindy Nichamin, AIDS.gov New Media Coordinator
Co-authored by Mindy Nichamin, AIDS.gov New Media Coordinator
Last month, the first Road to AIDS 2012 Town Hall meeting kicked off in San Francisco, California. This was the first of 15 meetings to be held across the country leading up to the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) (note: every Road to AIDS 2012 meeting…
National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
30 Years of AIDS: Dr. James Curran, Dean of Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health
In the fifth installment of our continuing six-week video series, Dr. James Curran, Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University discusses the early years of research and response to HIV/AIDS, the uncertainty of its cause, the rush to understand the epidemic fully, and the urgency to respond to the disease. Dr. Curran shared that, “the biggest…
30 Years of AIDS: Phill Wilson, Executive Director, Black AIDS Institute
In our fourth installment of our six-week video series, Black AIDS Institute President, Founder, and CEO Phill Wilson discusses his experiences over the past 30 years of AIDS…
30 Years of AIDS: Dr. Jeffrey Levi from Trust for America’s Health
In the third installment of our six-week video series, Trust for America’s Health Executive Director Dr. Jeffrey Levi discusses 30 years of AIDS in the United States. Dr. Levi became involved in the early days of HIV as a gay rights and civil rights activist. Now on the faculty at George Washington University School of…