The AIDS Crisis that reached a peak in the late 1980s greatly affected many across the United States, especially those who identified as a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. The AIDS crisis began in the early 1980s, and took the lives of 100K+Americans. Many of those affected were part of the LGBTQ+ community, IV drug users, and immigrants, who all groups stigmatized to various extents in Ronald Reagan’s Conservative America. People like the former President and the US government as a whole gave AIDS very little attention or research funding, only addressing it long after the crisis had begun, even while it was the number one public health threat.Society shunned people with HIV/AIDS and the disease was a death sentence. In response to this, several activists groups sprang up to raise awareness of the disease, end the stigma associated with it, and to help find a cure. One of the most famous of these groups was ACT UP with the slogan “Silence = Death.”  Although cases have declined since the early 90s, and there are now medications that allow people to keep HIV at almost undetectable levels, there still isn’t a cure. There are also lessons to be learned from the societal and public health response to the AIDS Crisis, both good and bad, that are relevant in today’s world. I believe that the AP US History curriculum developed by College Board should include a sectionabout the history of AIDS in America.