World AIDS Day/Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week 2025

Established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988, World AIDS Day aims to raise awareness of the ongoing AIDS crisis and the spread of HIV. Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week is a dedicated time to honour the leadership, strength, and lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples affected by or living with HIV and AIDS.

Updated November 22, 2025
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It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
Lowery, Jack (Writer)
Paper Book
An "unsparing account" (NPR) of art collective Gran Fury, which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities...
28 : stories of AIDS in Africa
Nolen, Stephanie
Paper Book
From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists - comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times. In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail' s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face...
All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
Burks, Ruth Coker
Paper Book
A gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America's fight against AIDS. In 1986, 26-year old...
Ending HIV in America
Maitra, Shayon
DVD
Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? As of 2019, in the US, there were only 34,000 new cases of the disease, a feat that once seemed near-impossible to achieve.
Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Schulman, Sarah
Paper Book
Named one of the Best Books of the 21st Century by Kirkus. Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award and the 2022 NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award. A 2021 New York Times Book Review Notable Book. One of NPR, New...
Taking turns : stories from HIV/AIDS care Unit 371
Czerwiec, MK
Paper Book
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward. A shining...
We were here the AIDS years in San Francisco
Weber, Bill.
DVD
In the 1970s, San Francisco had arguably the largest and most active gay community in America; it was the first city in America to elect an openly gay man to public office, Harvey Milk, and was one of the first places where the gay community learned to consolidate their political and economic power...
Never Silent : Act Up And My Life In Activism
Staley, Peter
Digital file
How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
France, David
Paper Book
One of The New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2016" KOBO "Best of the Year" From the creator of the seminal documentary of the same name, an Oscar finalist, the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic...
Stitch by stitch : Cleve Jones and the AIDS memorial quilt
Sanders, Rob
Paper Book
From the blanket that his great-grandmother made for him as a boy, to the friends he gathered together in San Francisco as a young man, to the idea for a monument sewn of fabric and thread, Cleve Jones' extraordinary life seems to have been stitched together bit by bit, piece by piece. ...
Boy with the bullhorn : a memoir and history of ACT UP New York
Goldberg, Ron (Activist)
Paper Book
Winner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Winner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards 2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/Biography A coming-of-age memoir of life on...
Criminalized lives : HIV and legal violence
McClelland, Alexander
Paper Book
POZ Best in Literature Award  Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one's HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives <...

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