The U.S.-backed program previously supported “investments in HIV testing, counselling, community-based organizations and other key health system intervention.”
Freddie Mercury's former fiancée and lifelong confidante Mary Austin has published a 318-page book built around the Queen frontman's handwritten lyrics, manuscripts she discovered hidden inside a piano stool at the West London home he left her when he died of AIDS in 1991. Austin, who has rarely spoken publicly about Mercury in the thirty-five […] The post Mary Austin breaks decades of silence on Freddie Mercury in new book of handwritten lyrics appeared first on American Almanac .
Freddie Mercury's former fiancée and lifelong confidante Mary Austin has published a 318-page book built around the Queen frontman's handwritten lyrics, manuscripts she discovered hidden inside a piano stool at the West London home he left her when he died of AIDS in 1991. Austin, who has rarely spoken publicly about Mercury in the thirty-five years since his death, sat for an exclusive interview with USA TODAY from her home in London to discuss *A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddie Mercury*, published by HarperCollins. The book pairs dozens of pages of Mercury's lyrics, written in small, cursive penmanship on British Midland airline notepads, with Austin's own contextualizing text, personal photos, and art…Open
Actress Alexa PenaVega mourned the deaths of Hayden Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Daveigh Chase in a single Instagram post, three women she grew up alongside on the Disney Channel, all gone before 40. PenaVega, now 37 and best known for the "Spy Kids" franchise, published the tribute on Tuesday. It arrived two days after Panettiere's […] The post Alexa PenaVega grieves three fellow child stars lost to addiction, illness, and life on the streets appeared first on American Almanac .
Actress Alexa PenaVega mourned the deaths of Hayden Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Daveigh Chase in a single Instagram post, three women she grew up alongside on the Disney Channel, all gone before 40. PenaVega, now 37 and best known for the "Spy Kids" franchise, published the tribute on Tuesday. It arrived two days after Panettiere's father confirmed his daughter's death to Page Six , and weeks after Chase died on the streets of Los Angeles. Trachtenberg had already been dead since February 2025. Three former Disney Channel stars, three separate tragedies, all compressed into a few months of loss for the people who knew them. PenaVega did not soften the weight of the moment. She wrote plainly about what it meant to grow up in an…Open
The United Nations has set a goal for near universal HIV diagnosis and treatment for all by 2030. No country in Asia has hit the mark — until this year.
Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society, says. "We have had very good scientific advances ... yet the funding cuts have also taken us back."
Phoenix will offer one-time $700 aid to households that lost benefits.
He learned the wrong lesson from the AIDS epidemic
Chase also voiced Lilo in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch."
She had struggled with drugs since age 13
'An explosion of a sexually transmitted disease.'