For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...

University Gallery presents a satellite exhibition in collaboration with Memorial Art Gallery’s “Up Against the Wall” main exhibition, March 6 - June 19, 2022. The 42 HIV/AIDS posters in the RIT ...

This week’s film is David Weissman’s We Were Here, which deals with the impact of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. It will air on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 10 PM ...

Rochester, N.Y. — While the cast of RENT is in Rochester, they toured the Memorial Art Gallery Tuesday to help raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The art gallery is showing 'Up Against the Wall ...

Apr. 18—Yuba College currently has an "AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic" exhibit on display at its Marysville campus in the Yuba College Library and ...

Treatment of HIV has advanced greatly since the virus first appeared in the 1980s. Despite this, much of the stigma remains the same, and HIV-related legislation from years ago remains in place.

OSIRE REFUGEE CAMP, Namibia, November 30 (UNHCR) - The 16-year-old refugee boy who inspired the UN refugee agency's poster for this year's World AIDS Day knows from personal experience the problems ...

I'm pleased to welcome Celeste Watkins-Hayes, the third contributor to our Off the Grid blog. She teaches sociology and African-American Studies at Northwestern, and comes to us at a good time. Her ...

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...

December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day observance. An estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since 1981. Up Against the ...