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 24, 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
For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them...
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...
Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Schulman, Sarah
Paper Book
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration - and long-overdue reassessment - of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Sarah Schulman, one of the...
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...

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