In the course “Clinical Microbiology” at Merrimack College, students spend a lot of time in the laboratory, peering into Petri dishes and adjusting microscopes. That is all very important, of course: ...

World AIDS Day was this past Friday, December 1, though the ongoing fight against AIDS—and our commemoration of the lives lost to the disease over the years—is certainly not limited to a single day.

Two decades ago, stories like Joseph Jeune’s helped alter the course of history. In a “before” photo of him, a skeletal figure sits on a bed, eyes sunken, gaze pained. His body lacks any visible ...

To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it. There’s an entire generation of queer men missing from the present-day frame, and many of those ...

First it was referred to as a “mysterious illness.” Later it was called “gay cancer,” “gay plague” and “GRID,” an acronym for gay-related immune deficiency. Most egregiously, some called it “4H ...