This edition of the series "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS", profiles Robby Sherwin, a native of Washington DC who attended Colorado State College and lived in San Francisco during the Harvey Milk era. Robby has worked in Hotel Management and as a Chef throughout his career. He is currently retired liv...

An interview with Hugh Beswick, Chairperson of the World AIDS Museum. This up close and personal interview is part of the series titled: Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS.
For the last eleven years of his career, Hugh Beswick was Senior Vice president of Labor Relations and Human Resources for Champion ...

While AIDS came to prominence in the 1980s, a new study published Friday says it was actually around decades before, in the 1920s.
In what an international team of scientists are calling a "perfect storm" for spreading the virus, they think its proliferation started in the city of Kinshasa, the cap...

This edition of the series "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS", profiles Susan Bernstein, who is honoring her beloved brother, Ivan Bernstein. Ivan was a native of Northern New Jersey and at the age of 45 died in Miami. He was a talented artist, musician, and a multi-media expert, who worked for Broadway ...

The controversial journalist/activist Randy Shilts (1951-1994), author of "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic," and "Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military," "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" is interviewed about his cont

With over 50,000 new HIV infections every year and the highest AIDS-related death rate of any wealthy nation, it has been declared that the US is “losing the battle against HIV.” This failure is a result of gaps in the “HIV Care Continuum” – which consists of the stages of HIV care ranging from kno

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...

The Magical Lantern Festival is a groundbreaking, five-week festival, channeling its rich, 2000-year heritage into an immersive world of 50, enormous lanterns which flash and interact with guests, including a 66-metre dragon; life-sized Terracotta Army; a majestic Temple of Heaven with performances ...

Broadway Bares: Rock Hard!, a luscious, modern-day mix tape of sensual sights and sounds featuring 170 of New York's sexiest dancers, celebrated its move to a new home on Sunday, June 22, 2014 by raising $1,386,105 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

MAKE ART/STOP AIDS is an initiative of the UCLA Art & Global Health Center, as well as other partnering groups around the world, including the Art & Global Health Center Africa. We're founded on the principle that artists are an essential part of anti-AIDS efforts. Artists are able to shape transfor...