By Christie Moffatt and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS Continue reading Source: NLM
Category: HIV/AIDS
The National Commission on AIDS, 1989–1993
By Susan L. Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine recently launched a new Profiles in Science site! Unlike most of our earlier Profiles, which Continue reading Source: NLM
June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S.
~ By Erika Mills In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection Continue reading Source: NLM
Archiving HIV/AIDS on the Web
Christine Wenc describes her work to develop a web archive to provide historians, healthcare providers, and biomedical researchers with significant historical data for their present and future work. Continue reading Source: NLM
Trade Cards in The Fight Against AIDS
By Ginny A. Roth ~ World AIDS Day is an international observance held on December 1st each year and an opportunity for people Continue reading Source: NLM
Images and Texts in Medical History—Keynote
On April 11-13, 2016, the National Library of Medicine will host the workshop “Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to Methods, Tools, and Continue reading Source: NLM
Challenging an Epidemic of Misinformation
By Christie Moffatt The focus of this year’s World AIDS Day is on challenging myths and focusing on facts about HIV, rethinking stereotypes and being Continue reading Source: NLM
Medical Identity and Ethnicity in 19th-Century New Orleans
Dr. Amy Wiese Forbes spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Medical Identity and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.” Dr. Forbes is Associate Continue reading Source: NLM
Caring for Foreign Bodies
Alan Kraut gave the annual James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture today at the National Library of Medicine on “Caring for Foreign Bodies: Healthcare’s Role in Continue reading Source: NLM
Take the Test, Take Control
By Ginny A. Roth This 1995 poster, “You Are Not Alone,” from the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), attempts to quell the fear that was, Continue reading Source: NLM
Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture
By Erika Mills The advent of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s bred an atmosphere of fear and confusion as people fell ill and died, questions Continue reading Source: NLM
A Heart Healthy Message From Arthur Ashe, Jr.
By Ginny A. Roth ~ This early 1980s-era poster from NHLBI, NIH features Ashe promoting good heart health. Continue reading Source: NLM