ATLANTA - "The first cases of what we know term AIDS were discovered and reported to CDC in June of 1981," says Jim Curran, Dean of Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. In the early ...

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Set more than 30 years ago during the early days of the AIDS crisis, “The Normal Heart” still has impact. It’s only fitting that San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros, self-described as the world’s ...

The Bay Area Reporter first mentioned what became HIV/AIDS about a month after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's notice on June 5, 1981. But that fall, in the paper's September ...

LAKELAND | The first reported U.S. cases of the once-mysterious disease now known as AIDS were little more than a blip on the public-health screen on June 5, 1981. Cathy Robinson Pickett, one of Polk ...

In mid-1981 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control noticed a set of medical curiosities: an alert from Los Angeles that five previously healthy young men had come down with a rare, fatal lung infection; ...

Psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals were among the first and most crucial responders to HIV/AIDS. Given an epidemic in which behavior and identity played fundamental ...