Twenty-Five Years of AIDS
In 1981, the news first broke. A report of a nameless but deadly disease in a handful of men in New York City and Los Angeles, California. Today that handful has become more than a million people living with the virus called HIV in the United States. Over the last quarter of a century, more than twenty-five million people around the world have died. That includes more than five hundred thousand Americans. Of the more than one million people in the United States with HIV, about one quarter have no idea they have the virus. They have not yet been … Continue reading