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...
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...
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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