40 years on, where we have been and where we are going

June 5 marks 40 years since an illness that would later be known as HIV would be reported in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It has been 40 years of fighting to end the HIV epidemic. We’re still here.

“It’s taken us 40 years of the HIV crisis to teach the world that our lives and our loves are equal to everyone else.”

If you missed this morning's powerful @TODAYshow segment looking at where we are 40 years into the HIV epidemic, watch now. pic.twitter.com/Yf112XGrwC

— AIDS United (@AIDS_United) June 2, 2021