AIDS: Media
disease
Videos
Learn about the history of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., including the response...
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The AIDS epidemic began in the late 20th century, at a time when fewer people were...
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American virologist Robert Gallo, speaking in 2011 to discuss HIV and the prospects...
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Images
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 virions (green) budding from a cultured lymphocyte....
C. Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The June 5, 1981, edition of MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report),...
CDC
False-color scanning electron micrograph of a T cell infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency...
© NIBSC, Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers, Inc.
A microbiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention preparing...
James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
In 1987, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved zidovudine (AZT; Retrovir),...
© Francois Ancellet—Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
A three-dimensional X-ray crystallographic image showing a broadly neutralizing antibody...
NIAID
Many different events are held on World AIDS Day to help raise awareness of the disease...
PRNewsFoto/AIDS Action Committee/AP Images
The AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in Washington, D.C.
Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm-13502)
Adopted worldwide in 1991, the red AIDS ribbon is a symbol of solidarity and awareness...
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Interactives
Advances in treatment and prevention in the late 1990s and early 2000s have led to...
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