World AIDS Day

Two of the films focus on the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America, while the third focuses on the current state of AIDS in America, India and South Africa.

The memorial has been in the works for over five years.

“Together, we can do this,” Obama says in the video. “And long after I leave office, you’ll have a friend in me.”

Despite new treatment methods, Human Immunodeficiency Virus remains one of the most common and most dangerous STDs in the U.S.

“When Dogs Heal” tells the stories of HIV-positive people and their dogs in an exhibit launching in Chicago on Tuesday — World AIDS Day.

A pop-up kissing booth will be erected on Tuesday starring handsome model Alex Mountain — and it’s all to dispel a tenacious HIV myth.

Thirty-three years ago, on June 5, in 1981, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles. All of the men were described as “homosexuals” — two had died.

President Barack Obama on Friday issued the following Presidential Proclamation in advance of World AIDS Day on Monday, an annual observance to raise awareness and commemorate those who have lost their lives to one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.

On the morning of my 30th birthday, I checked my then-partner, Shane Sawick, into the hospital. He would not come out. Shane died just two weeks later, suffering from Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML); one disease, among many, battled in his long war against AIDS. Once in the hospital, the illness quickly progressed, and in just a matter of days, he could no longer speak, blink, nor respond in any way. Through it all, though, his mind still raced, and processed, and thought…

Each year on World AIDS Day, we come together as a global community to fight a devastating pandemic. We remember the friends and loved ones we have lost, stand with the estimated 35 million people living with HIV/AIDS, and renew our commitment to preventing the spread of this virus at home and abroad…