AIDS

Does anybody care about AIDS anymore?
By Marie Claudet
June 3, 2011 - 12:07am
This year marks 30 years since the first official documentation of AIDS in the United States. People living with HIV or AIDS or involved with the cause in Syracuse share their thoughts on what has become of this disease nowadays.

Less activism, less media coverage, and AIDS patients looking healthy. Everything seems to indicate that AIDS is a disease of the past or belonging to a third-world country.

“People have become complacent. Now, the general consensus is that I’ll just take a pill and I’ll be fine,” said Joe Carpenter, who has been living with HIV for the last 28 years.

"Dead" celebrities on Facebook and Twitter have been revived.
By Stephanie Tardugno
December 8, 2010 - 11:13am
Celebrities who signed off of social media sites to raise money for an AIDS charity have met their goal.

After meeting their fund-raising goal of $1 million for an AIDS charity, celebrities who had signed off Facebook and Twitter for a week as part of the so-called "Digital Death" charity campaign, are not back alive, according to People.

AIDS, love and college students
By Christine Mehta
October 21, 2009 - 11:39pm
Health educator Scott Fried delivers a frank talk on sexual relationships and protecting yourself from HIV/AIDS.

“I need you all to stay awake. If you fall asleep you’ll really miss out on something great.”

Perched on the edge of the Goldstein Auditorium stage Wednesday night, Scott Fried began his talk to 250 Syracuse University students with that opening line. 

Fried was infected with HIV in 1987. The national public speaker and health educator has made it his mission for the past 18 years to help others protect themselves from the disease. 

AIDS detection and treatment improves world wide
By Andrew Reich
September 30, 2009 - 3:59pm
More people are getting treatment for H.I.V. and AIDS around the world.

NYTimes.com reports, the amount of people being tested for H.I.V. has doubled in several countries over the past year. This has contributed greatly to not only the detection of AIDS, but to people being treated.