HIV/AIDS

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power: Militant resistance during the AIDS crisis

“ACT UP! Fight back! Fight AIDS!” These words were first uttered in March of 1987, by the organization ACT UP…

March 25, 2024

Stop stigmatizing HIV!

HIV. Three letters that spell dread for many. Even in the year 2024, people still feel that it’s a death…

March 20, 2024

A Marxist history of HIV/AIDS − Part 5: Mobilization wins against AIDS in New York City, 1981 − 1986

HIV refers to human immunodeficiency virus. If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). HIV…

September 16, 2021

A Marxist history of HIV/AIDS − Part 4 −  ‘Fighting for our lives’ against AIDS in San Francisco, 1981 − 1986

WHIV refers to human immunodeficiency virus. If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). HIV…

September 9, 2021

A Marxist history of HIV/AIDS − Part 3: Early Fightback, 1981-1982

HIV refers to human immunodeficiency virus. If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). HIV…

September 1, 2021

Cuba and HIV/AIDS: How to combat an epidemic

By Æzra EL Boston This is an edited version of a talk given July 9 at a Workers World Party−Boston…

July 12, 2021

Una historia marxista del VIH/SIDA

Hace cuarenta años, el 5 de junio de 1981, se informó del primer caso de lo que llegó a conocerse…

July 12, 2021

A Marxist history of HIV/AIDS – Part 2 The origins of HIV/AIDS 

HIV refers to human imunodeficiency virus. If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The…

July 9, 2021

A Marxist history of HIV/AIDS – Part 1

Forty years ago, on June 5, 1981, the first instance of what came to be known as HIV/AIDS was reported…

July 2, 2021

Cuba eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV

By E. Catalinotto, Certified Nurse Midwife Cuba became the first country certified by the World Health Organization as having eliminated…

July 10, 2015