What Is the AIDS Crisis?By: Nico Medina, Who HQ Illustrator: Tim Foley Series: What Was? In this addition to the New York Times bestselling series, learn how incredible activists made the public aware of AIDS and spurred medical breakthroughs. In the early 1980s, the first cases of a devastating and fatal new disease appeared, a disease that at first struck only gay men and was later identified as HIV AIDS. It was the beginning of what became a worldwide health crisis that