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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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.

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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...
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
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...
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...
13th balloon : a poem
Bibbins, Mark
Paper Book
O, The Oprah Magazine, "42 Best LGBTQ Books of 2020" NPR's Favorite Books of 2020 In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast...
Never silent : ACT UP and my life in activism
Staley, Peter
Paper Book
"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." --Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America ...
How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
France, David
Paper Book
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic--from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the...
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. ...
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