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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. The group works to improve the lives of people with AIDS through direct action , medical research, treatment and advocacy, and working to change legislation and public policies.
A demonstrator waves a placard using the "Silence=Death" slogan during a 2017 event in New York City.Activist groups focused on HIV/AIDS in the United States initially drew their numbers from the bisexual, lesbian, and male homosexual communities as a whole, with socio-political campaigns including culturally active patients who were struggling with their healthcare themselves.
In December 1981, director Jim Geary and Steve Peskind, co-founder of the Buddhist AIDS Project, started the first known Kaposi’s Sarcoma support group. [3] Group members Bobbi Campbell, Bobby Reynolds, and people with AIDS (PWA) activist Dan Turner contributed to the movement that created the foundational Denver Principles, listing recommendations and rights.
A group of activists staged a sit-in in Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) personal office over funding for HIV and AIDS programs Monday, ending with several demonstrators being arrested by ...
The Switch Up — Activists say AIDS-free generation on the horizon. Cheyanne M. Daniels. December 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 1988 ...
Housing Works is a New York City-based non-profit fighting AIDS and homelessness. The charity is well known for its entrepreneurial businesses including a chain of thrift shops, which supports efforts to end AIDS and homelessness where they are based. They are also known for their social justice activism.
American HIV/AIDS activists (270 P) Pages in category "HIV/AIDS activism in the United States" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Pride Month Profile: 'He will forever be Uncle Ronnie:' Grace a dancer, movie extra and beloved AIDS activist His dance career took him to New York City at the age of 19 and eventually he moved to ...