NEW YORK CITY – OCTOBER 7, 2013 – ACT UP/New York and allies celebrated the New York Public Library’s landmark exhibition on AIDS activism with a demonstration on the first day of the exhibit, Friday, October 4th. More than thirty ACT UP members and allies collected in the exhibit room and died-in o

16 climate activists teens and children are petitioning the United Nations with claims that the boy is violating children's rights by not taking action on climate change and global warming. Global climate strike leader Greta Thunberg is among the activists taking climate action against the UN. Thunb...

In this installment of the World AIDS Museum (WAM) Chronology Exhibit we highlight the work of Humanitarian Elizabeth Glaser who's work and the creation of the Pediatric Foundation has been instrumental in the successful fight against the incidence of HIV/AIDS infections among children in the US and...

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearfulnation and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and, with no scientific training, i...

This edition of the World AIDS Museum series: Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," profiles Dr. Rosalind Osgood. Dr Osgood is the President and CEO of the Mount Olive Development Corporation and a Member of the Board of Education of Broward County, Florida representing the 5th District. Dr Osgood also ser...

In this edition of "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," the World AIDS Museum (WAM) and Educational Center presents an up close and personal interview with Reverend Janis Lewis of the Mount Olive New Baptist Church in Ft Lauderdale, who has been working for the past 8 years as a missionary in Kenya, East...

In this edition of "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," the World AIDS Museum (WAM) and Educational Center presents an up close and personal interview with Gina Granato-Hossack. Gina was diagnosed with HIV in 1991, at the time she also found out she was pregnant. Gina participated in one of the first c...

This edition of the World AIDS Museum series: Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," profiles Dr. Rosalind Osgood. Dr Osgood is the President and CEO of the Mount Olive Development Corporation and a Member of the Board of Education of Broward County, Florida representing the 5th District. Dr Osgood also serv...

Margaret Heckler was President Reagan's secretary of health and human services from March 1983 to December 1985. Here she says AIDS was her number one priority, but that she had to balance her department's response against the Reagan administration's fiscal priorities. Heckler maintains that preexis...

In this edition of "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," we presents Oncology Pharmacist David King. In his up close and personal interview, David King describes how he found out his HIV status four years ago, even though he believes he was infected in the early stages of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980's. H...