LibGuides: AIDS/HIV: On the Web

Websites and Organizations

AIDS United
AIDS United’s mission is to end the HIV epidemic in the United States.
Avert
Avert is working at the forefront of HIV and sexual health education. We believe in the power of digital communications to increase knowledge and understanding of HIV and sexual health, so people can make informed choices and live healthily.
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
HIV.gov
Our Objectives
- To expand the visibility of timely and relevant Federal HIV policies, programs, and resources to the American public.
- To assess starting or increasing the use of new media tools by government, minority-serving organizations, and other community partners to extend the reach of HIV programs to communities at greatest risk.
-To increase knowledge about HIV and access to HIV services for people most at risk for or living with HIV.
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HIV.gov receives planning guidance from the Federal HIV/AIDS Web Council (see below), a cross-agency planning group, and uses a communications plan to guide its activities.
UNAIDS
UNAIDS is leading the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Visual AIDS
Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
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Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications - while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. We embrace diversity and difference in our staff, leadership, artists and audiences.
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December each year. It’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day.

Minnesota Websites and Organizations

AIDS Crisis in Minnesota
The beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States could be traced back to a Centers for Disease Control report in July of 1981, identifying a mysterious disease attacking the immune systems of five otherwise healthy, young, gay men in Los Angeles. It would not take long for the disease to emerge in Minnesota when in May of 1982, Bruce Brockway (gay rights activist and former publisher of the St. Paul Positively Gay newspaper) became the first person in Minnesota to be diagnosed with HIV.
HIV/AIDS Crisis, 1981‒1997
n 1981, AIDS was a mystery illness—a so-called “gay plague” because of its initial appearance among men who had sex with other men in large coastal cities like New York and San Francisco. Minnesotans breathed a sigh of relief, thinking they were far enough from the epidemic to be safe. But they were wrong.
MN Dept of Health - HIV/AIDS
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the virus that can cause AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). HIV is most commonly transmitted during anal and vaginal sex, while sharing syringes or equipment to inject drugs or other substances, and less commonly, during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt display, Minneapolis
Begun in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco in 1987, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt grew into a nationwide community art project memorializing those who had been killed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Lovers, families, and friends of people who had died sewed quilt panels; others created them for individuals they had never met. In 1988, the quilt embarked on a national twenty-city tour and arrived at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis on July 16.