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ACT UP & Occupy ACT UP and Occupy Wall Street protestors in 2012 demanding a tax on Wall Street to fund global AIDS treatment, prevention, and care.	ACT UP at the NIH A 1990 ACT UP demonstration at the National Institutes of Health demanding more research on AIDS.	Affected or Infected A sign from Zambia in 2005.
AIDS AIDS AIDS A 2005 sign from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania promoting AIDS awareness.	AIDS Bigotry Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi at the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987.	Big Pharma A protester at the 30^thAnniversary Gathering Rally NYC AIDS Memorial in 2017.
CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report A cover page of the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in 1981, soon after its initial report set off alarm bells.	Congo Independence A stamp commemorating the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s independence in 1960.	Congolese Independence Patrice Lumumba (left center) immediately after being sworn in as the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960.
Cuban Armed Forces in Angola A Cuban tank in Angola in 1976.	Fight Homophobia, Fight AIDS ACT UP protesters in 2009 demonstrating against a bill criminalizing homosexuality in Uganda.	Fresno Lesbian-Gay Pride Parade ACT UP demonstrators at the first Fresno Lesbian-Gay Pride Parade in 1991.
Giant Chimpanzee Two men holding a giant chimpanzee killed around 1910.	HIV Criminalization An ACT UP protester at the ACT UP 30^thAnniversary Gathering Rally in 2017.	HIV-1 HIV-1 (in green) under a scanning electron micrograph.
HIV/AIDS Awareness Mural An mural to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique from 2007.	HIV/AIDS Commemoration Heart shaped balloons to commemorate those lost from HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day 2013.	HIV/AIDS Outreach Event A 2006 outreach session about HIV/AIDS in Angola.
I am only a Child Street art in South Africa from 2008 appealing for men to not rape children. Many falsely believed that raping a virgin would cure AIDS.	Leopold II and his Guineas A 1905 caricature of Belgian King Leopold II with his earnings from the Congo Free State and exploited workers in the background.	Make America Single Payer ACT UP protesters at the ACT UP 30^thAnniversary Gathering Rally in New York in 2017.
New Wave of AIDS Rage A 2012 sign from San Francisco.	On the Rumba River Papa Wendo Kolosoy’s 2004 album “On the Rumba River.”	PEPFAR Logo The 2015 logo for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the Central Asia Region.
Rare Cancer A newspaper clipping from 1981.	Robert Gallo Robert Gallo in the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology at the National Institutes of Health.	Ryan White Ryan White, a boy with hemophilia, became a poster child for HIV/AIDS in the U.S. after his school refused to readmit him after his diagnosis of AIDS in 1984.
Silence=Death A 1987 poster from the precursor to the protest group ACT UP.	SIV Primates From left to right, the African green monkey (the source of SIV), the sooty mangabey monkey (source of HIV-2), and the chimpanzee (source of HIV-1).	The Beginning of the End of AIDS President Barack Obama at George Washington University on World AIDS Day in 2011 (Photo by Lawrence Jackson).
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Archbishop Desmond Tutu getting an HIV test as part of his foundation’s mobile test unit.	The Reagans and Hudson Despite being close friends with Rock Hudson, President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan made no public statements regarding Rthe actor’s death from AIDS in 1985.	The Rhodes Colossus An 1892 caricature of Cecil Rhodes, a British businessman who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, standing from “Cape to Cairo.”
The UN in the Congo Swedish UN soldier in the Congo in the 1960s.	Treatment Action Campaign Attendees, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, at the Sixth Annual Congress of the Treatment Action Campaign in 2017.	Treatment Action Campaign Activists Treatment Action Campaign activists during a 2003 march on South Africa’s parliament.
UNAIDS The logo for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.	USAID Equipment A midwife in Uganda drawing a patient’s blood using a machine provided by USAID in 2012.	War of Liberation Portuguese soldiers in Angola during the War of Liberation between Portugal and Angola from 1961 to 1974.
WHO Smallpox Eradication World Health Organization logo commemorating the eradication of smallpox in 1979.	World AIDS Day South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (center) at the 2017 World AIDS Day commemoration.

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