#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/04/2011 #1

Participants in red ponchos walk out of a basketball arena to a field before trying to assemble the world’s largest human AIDS ribbon on World AIDS Day at Coppin State University in Baltimore. Organizers estimated that 1,000 people participated in the event, short of their goal of 4,000.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/01/2012 #2

A large red ribbon is installed on the North Portico of the White House in Washington November 30th, 2012 to uselessly mark World AIDS Day on December 1st.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/02/2014 #4

A person lights a flame during a futile World AIDS day event in Copenhagen, Dec. 1st, 2014.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/03/2014 #1

Bruce Springsteen performs with U2 during a surprise concert in support of World AIDS Day in Times Square, NY.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/02/2015 #5

Indian social activists and children release a World AIDS Day awareness sign tied to ballons in Kolkata on Dec. 1st, 2015. World AIDS Day is celebrated annually to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and to demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic.

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#6 Click this link to see Assorted Stuff page --> 07/19/2019 #2

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#7 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 11/21/2020 #17

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#8 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/26/2021 #6

In 1985, 13-year-old AIDS patient Ryan Wayne White began “attending” classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo, IN, via a telephone connection at his home —— school officials had barred Ryan from attending classes in person. #RyanWhite #AIDS

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#9 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/03/2021 #16

In 1994, AIDS activist Elizabeth (Meyer) Glaser, who along with her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion, died in Santa Monica, CA, at age 47. #ElizabethGlaser #AIDS

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#10 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/08/2021 #7

In 1991, AIDS patient Kimberly Ann Bergalis, who had contracted the disease from her dentist, died in Fort Pierce, FL, at age 23. #KimberlyBergalis #AIDS

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#11 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/06/2022 #16

In 1993, Hall of Fame tennis player and human rights advocate Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. died in New York at age 49. #ArthurAshe

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#12 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/02/2022 #14

In 1985, the government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply. #AIDS It wasn’t until “regular” people were threatened that efforts were made to investigate the disease, and then only to make sure the drug users and gays didn’t give it to others.

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#13 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/01/2022 #11

In 1987, in his first speech on the AIDS epidemic, Ronnie Raygun told doctors in Philadelphia, “We’ve declared AIDS public health enemy no. 1.” #RonnieRaygun #AIDS After ignoring death and despair for years.

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#14 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/08/2022 #11

In 1990, Ryan Wayne White, the teenage AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance had gained national attention, died in Indianapolis at age 18. #RyanWhite #AIDS

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#15 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/08/2022 #12

In 1992, tennis great Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. announced at a New York news conference that he had AIDS (Ashe died the following February of AIDS related pneumonia at age 49). #ArthurAshe #AIDS

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#16 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/09/2022 #19

In 1991, Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Spencer) #LadyDiana #AIDS

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#17 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/01/2022 #8

In 2003, leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest nations and Russia pledged billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger on the opening day of their summit in Evian, France. #AIDS #G8

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#18 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/05/2022 #7

In 1981, the CDC reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the 1st recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS. #AIDS

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#19 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/13/2022 #2

San Francisco • More than 3,000 panels of the Aids memorial quilt are displayed to mark its 35th anniversary in Golden Gate Park.

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#20 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/15/2022 #6

In 1985, a visibly gaunt Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.) appeared at a news conference with frequent co-star Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS). #RockHudson #AIDS

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#21 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/25/2022 #9

In 1985, a spokeswoman for Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.) confirmed that the actor, hospitalized in Paris, was suffering from AIDS. (Hudson died in October 1985.) #RockHudson #AIDS

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#22 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/03/2022 #1

Chennai, India • Students take part in an awareness raising campaign to mark World Aids Day.

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#23 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 06/04/2025 #9

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