HIV/AIDS and Stigma (with Peter Staley, ...

This week on the season finale of In Fact, Chelsea is sitting down with best-selling and award winning author Jacqueline Woodson. They discuss her early inspirations, the importance and recent politicization of children’s books, the progress we’ve made towards equality and what’s ... Show More

This week, Chelsea is sitting down with award winning singer, songwriter, actress, and producer Kelly Rowland. They talk about Kelly’s early inspirations and growing up as a performer, the still male dominated music industry, motherhood, writing and what’s next in terms of achiev ... Show More

This week, Chelsea is sitting down with Allyson Felix – the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete of all time. They talk about Allyson’s journey to Olympic and World Championship gold, her decision to become an advocate for herself and others, and what needs to happen next ... Show More

In 1992 HIV/AIDS hit a grim milestone in the United States when it became the number one cause of death among men ages 25 to 44. Since there was still so much stigma attached to the illness, people were often dying without even telling their closest friends and family that they w ... Show More

<p>It’s forty years since the first report on HIV/Aids appeared in a medical journal. Back in the early days in the 1980s a misunderstanding made one man the face of the epidemic. A Canadian air steward, Gaetan Dugas was mistakenly identified as ‘Patient Zero’. A misreading of sc ... Show More

In the 1980s, the world was gripped by a virus that was killing people in their thousands; savaging communities and creating a climate of fear, blame and ignorance. That virus was HIV, and here to sift the facts from the fiction and explain how the AIDS crisis transformed everyth ... Show More

South Africa's anti-retroviral programme to treat HIV infection is the largest in the world with 5.5 million people in treatment. It’s transformed this disease from an automatic death sentence, to something that can be managed as a chronic illness and the government is determined ... Show More

Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now a chronic but manageable disease. These proclamations have been accompanied by stagnant or ... Show More

Activists have worked for years to eliminate HIV-associated stigma. But within multiple European countries, people are still prosecuted for transmitting HIV. Despite clear guidance from HIV organizations emphasizing the harms associated with criminal prosecutions of these cases, ... Show More

<p>In the early 1980s, a mysterious new disease spread like wildfire through the gay communities of major U.S. cities. Before it even had a name, AIDS had already killed over half its victims. Public response was hampered by ignorance, fear, and homophobia. This is the story of t ... Show More

This is it, y'all: the season finale. This week we’re talking about HIV/AIDS, one of the biggest pandemics of modern times. We were fortunate enough to speak with three individuals who have had vastly different experiences with HIV/AIDS. Frank Iamelli, who took care of many of hi ... Show More

<p>How do we understand something as huge as a global epidemic?</p><br><p>Similarly to Covid, the AIDS epidemic, which was most destructive in the 1980s and 90s, had such universal reach. Yet within that, there were millions of personal experiences.</p><br><p>What was it like to ... Show More