Read More: Excerpt Part One Excerpt Part TwoTomorrow -- June 5, 2011 -- marks the 30th anniversary of the first recognition of the HIV epidemic. In honor of the occasion, I'm running excerpts from ...

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 ...

More than 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, African Americans represent half of all new cases in the United States. How did we get here? This timeline explores the decades of events leading to ...

On this day, June 5, 1981, the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reported in the United States. In India, the country's massive health emergency of the smallpox epidemic ...

1959: Bantu man in Africa is first confirmed diagnosis of a viral disease that later is called AIDS. 1978: First Americans infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. 1981: HIV surfaces, as five ...

First recognized in 1988, World AIDS Day falls on December 1 each year. On this day, people around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who ...

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; ...

In 1981, most Americans were oblivious to an emerging sickness that was overtaking gays. Throughout the spring and summer that year, a mystery would slowly unfold in U.S. metropolitan areas. It was ...

In the summer of 1981, The New York Times published a piece largely believed to be the first major news story about HIV/AIDS. Penned by veteran health reporter and physician Lawrence K. Altman, it was ...

Paris - Here are landmarks in the history of HIV/Aids: 1920s or 1930s (speculated): Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which destroys immune cells in apes, leaps the species barrier to humans after ...