HIV

HIV is spreading faster in the Philippines than anywhere in the world. VICE World News speaks to individuals affected by this rising epidemic.

Michelle Lopez knows how hard it can be to overcome the obstacles life presents—from her HIV diagnosis in the early 90s, to raising a daughter living with HIV, to simply aging with HIV in a society ill-prepared for people like her.

Timothy DuWhite is unabashed about his perspective on the world, from his writing to workshops and to politics around HIV.

VICE meets a few of the last surviving members of Los Frikis, members of Cuba's punk movement who purposefully infected themselves with HIV so that they'd be sent to government-sanctioned sanatoriums.

For our VICE on HBO Special Report, 'Countdown to Zero,' VICE Co-Founder Suroosh Alvi travelled to South Africa, the country with the highest number of HIV infections in the world, to take a look at how doctors and rural clinics there are fighting to