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"Worthless," declared the composer's friends. "Impossible to play." But Tchaikovsky refused to change a note of what became history's most romantic and…
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Today is the 11th annual National Women and Girls HIV-AIDS Awareness Day. The organizer of today’s events is the Office of Women’s Health, a division of…
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Teens in New York don't need their parent's consent before seeking treatment for most sexually transmitted diseases. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it's time to…
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New York is expanding efforts to prevent the spread of the virus that causes AIDS by funding counseling, testing and other support for infected patients…
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Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a blueprint for ending the AIDS epidemic in New York by 2020 Wednesday. Speaking before an enthusiastic audience outside…
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For over 30 years now, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned blood donations from gay and bisexual men. It is a lifetime ban.…
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Although the epidemic likely started a decade or two earlier, AIDS wasn't identified as a new disease until 1981. It took a few more years to isolate HIV,…
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Equity Fights AIDS was founded in 1987 by the Council of Actors’ Equity Association. The money they raised across the country was used to support The…
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In 1985, Shelby Smoak was diagnosed HIV positive, a fact that he did not learn (by choice) until a few years later. Smoak’s diagnosis is compounded with…