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AP/The Atlantic 'The Disease of the Century': Reporting on the Origin of AIDS
A veteran medical journalist for The New York Times remembers covering the indifference, confusion, and fear of the epidemic's early years.
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NIAID/Flickr/The Atlantic A Promising HIV Vaccine in South Africa
After encouraging early results from a small study, clinical trials will begin in January.
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Staying Alive in the Rural South
The disquieting silence around the HIV epidemic
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HIV Cures: Where We Are, Realistically
An infectious-diseases specialist breaks down the reported breakthroughs
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HIV+ Baby Cured
A day for medical history
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How Close Are We to an AIDS-Free Generation?
Where we stand on what President Obama has declared an achievable goal -- and a top U.S. global priority
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Why South Carolina Still Segregates HIV-Positive Prisoners
Jails across across the country have long since stopped putting inmates with the AIDS virus in separate housing. Here's why one state refuses to change its ways.
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In the Former Soviet Union, We're Losing the Battle Against AIDS
The region is one of only two in the world where HIV mortality and infection rates are getting worse.
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Study: Romance Trumps Friends With Benefits
Those in traditional relationships are more satisfied, sexually and otherwise, and better at communicating.
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The ACLU AIDS Project: Decades On, Still Separate and Unequal
Unfounded fears echo throughout policy, health care, education -- pretty much everywhere.
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A Global Plan to End AIDS Everywhere But at Home
The bold, aggressive new plan released by Hillary Clinton once again wildly surpasses in ambition what U.S. officials dare attempt in this country.
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Young, Gay, Black—and at Risk for HIV
Government neglect and historic patterns of segregated living and socializing have helped fuel the epidemic among very young gay black men.
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Should Everyone HIV+ Be Required to Disclose That to Every Sexual Partner?
45 U.S. states have made failing to disclose one's HIV status a criminal offense.
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China's Surprising Assault on HIV/AIDS—and a Cultural Taboo
Was an HIV-positive man -- who'd been denied other treatments because of his disease -- right to falsify his medical records? Beijing thinks so.
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The Prospects for a 'Sterilizing' HIV Cure
Current treatments keep the virus in check, as opposed to those that could completely eliminate it.
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The Global Geography of HIV: 20 Years of Change—in 1 GIF
With just two years until UN member states hit their Millennium Development deadline for AIDS, a reminder of how far we've come -- and what's still left to do
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Study: HIV Appears Responsible for New Virulent Strains of Salmonella
Contagious pathogens spread and evolve in people with suppressed immune systems
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Tainted: Why Gay Men Still Can't Donate Blood
Especially with the country in great need of donation, science should speak louder than stigma in determining who can help.
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No One Should Die From AIDS
How far we've come, and how far we have to go before an AIDS-free generation
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Only Stronger U.S. Leadership Can End the AIDS Epidemic
Existing treatment and prevention techniques could prevent millions of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS -- but only if Obama sustains funding.
