For example, Newsweek‘s first cover story on AIDS ― published in 1983 under the bold headline EPIDEMIC ― announced that “a new and deadly disease is coursing through the country wasting bodies of ...

None of us had seen anything like it, nor did we have even a reasonable guess about what caused it. One other fact that we certainly didn't know was, at that exact time, we were only four miles down ...

Cover stories hailing the “end” of the epidemic appear in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. New AIDS cases in NYC, 1994 to 1996: 33,208. Deaths so far: 67,049.

In science, what we think is true often turns out to be wrong. In a December 1985 cover story, Discover reported “The Latest Scientific Facts” about AIDS, facts that we know today were misguided or ...

Most notably, in 1988, the same year in which White appeared on the cover of People magazine for the second time, the artist collective Gran Fury—which emerged out of the AIDS Coalition to ...

Thirty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, stigma and discrimination continue to slow efforts to prevent and treat the disease. ... who’s picture appears on the magazine’s cover.

Forty-four years ago, in June 1981, the first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported in the United States. So began an epidemic that’s killed more than 39 million people around the world and 500,000 ...