A new report from UNAIDS state that as many as 9 million people may have been infected by the HIV virus and are unaware of their status. HIV activists say that these statistics are good to know because HIV/AIDS no longer gets the attention that it did in the past. Wafaa El-Sadr who is ICAP’s […]
The Centers For Disease Control on April 24, 1980, received a report that Ken Horne of San Francisco was diagnosed with Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS). In 1981, retroactively the CDC named his as patient one in the AIDS epidemic. It was later discovered that Horne also had Cryptococcus. Flash forward to 2018, there have been many […]
World AIDS Day commemorates its 30-year-anniversary on Dec. 1, 2018. “Know Your Status” is this year’s theme. Understanding the importance of knowing one’s status is of the utmost importance. Since its inception at the 1988 World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention, United Nations agencies along with governments and civil organizations worldwide […]
