Matt Nadel had to confront a lot of ethical conflicts while making “Cashing Out,” a short film recounting the birth of the viatical industry.

If filmmaker Matt Nadel is being honest, when he first set out to make a film about the viatical settlement industry, he had planned for it to be a “dad-bashing doc,” he says with a tentative laugh.

Ruth Coker Burks never intended to be an advocate, activist or even an angel. She just wanted to do the right thing. “Oh, I’m no angel,” Coker Burks, 62, told TODAY. “I’m just a person.” But that’s ...

Experts and activists have warned that complacency may cause a resurgence of the epidemic that has claimed more than 40 million people. A number of young people do not think HIV is not a problem ...

LONDON -- Fewer people are dying of AIDS, more patients are on HIV medication, and the global AIDS epidemic is stable after peaking in the late 1990s. But the United Nations' AIDS agency warned in its ...

World AIDS Day was created in 1988 by the World Health Organization as an international commemoration of those we have lost to HIV/AIDS and to celebrate the advancements we have achieved in education, ...

Donna Binder, "ACT-UP Demo Federal Plaza NYC June 30, 1987" (from left: Steve Gendon, Mark Aurigemma, Douglas Montgomery, Charles Stinson, Frank O’Dowd, Avram Finkelstein) (© Donna Binder) It’s one ...

Michael Seltzer, whose bedside vigil for a friend who was dying of AIDS transformed him into a prodigious fundraiser who rallied individuals, foundations and corporations to support the prevention and ...

The modern cannabis market and its sleek dispensaries, brand collaborations, and Green Wednesday promos for infused pre-rolls feel far removed from the world where activists went to jail for baking ...