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Peter Piot is a Belgian microbiologist and physician who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976 while investigating an outbreak in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). He served as the founding executive director of UNAIDS from 1995 to 2008, playing a central role in coordi...

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a Texas man diagnosed with AIDS in 1985 who smuggled unapproved treatments into the US; McConaughey won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi is a French virologist renowned for her pivotal role in identifying the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Her groundbreaking research, conducted with Luc Montagnier, established HIV as a distinct virus and fundamen...

Robert Gallo is an American physician and virologist who spent much of his career at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. In the early 1980s his laboratory identified the first known human retroviruses, HTLV-1 and HTLV-2, and later reported that a retrovirus now called HIV was the cause of AIDS. This...

Luc Montagnier is a French virologist recognized for his pivotal role in understanding and combating HIV/AIDS. His research led to the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. This groundbreaking work earned him a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiol...

“The Announcement” chronicles the tumultuous rise and fall of Jim Valvano’s North Carolina State Wolfpack basketball teams in the early 1980s, examining his coaching style, athletic achievements, and ultimately, his battle with cancer.

American infectious disease physician Rochelle Walensky directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023, leading its COVID-19 pandemic response.