World AIDS Day is held on December 1 each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate those who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, held for the first time in 1988.

To commemorate the day, we're re-sharing our 2014 video Stories from the Collections: Women, AIDS, and Incarceration, a short film discussing activist Katrina Haslip, founder of ACE (AIDS Counseling and Education), and her work helping incarcerated women living with HIV/AIDS. The film was produced for the NYPL exhibition Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism in 2014, and features archival materials from the exhibition and our collections.

For more information about World AIDS Day and HIV/AIDS, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's website. There, you can find general information, resources for testing and care services, social media awareness campaigns, and more.

You can also view photographs and ephemera from ACT UP New York in our Digital Collections. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded in March 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center (now The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center) in New York City's Greenwich Village as an organization devoted to direct action (demonstrations and civil disobedience) to call the attention of government officials, scientists, drug companies and other corporations, and the general public to the severity of the AIDS crisis and its impact on the lives of individuals.