By Steven Drew Auerbach, Co-Executive Director/COO HARP-PS Let’s cut to the chase: World AIDS Day—launched on December 1, 1988—wasn’t born from some kumbaya moment. It came from two World Health Organization public information officers, James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, and the visionary Dr. Jonathan Mann. Their goal? Carve out a date, December 1, that’d get airtime long after U.S. elections and before holiday TV specials drown everything else out [1] . Remember, this was 1988: AIDS brought...