Student Health Services, the unit of The New School responsible for student health and wellbeing, sponsored this digital publication, which was embedded in a university event web page devoted to World AID's Day 2023, observed on December 1. https://event.newschool.edu/worldaidsday2023

Members of The New School community received information about World AIDS Day events via email, which led them to the web page.

HIV Basics 101 is a digital publication consisting of five sections: Basics, Living with HIV, How the Virus Gets Shared, Prevention, and Testing. Included in the guide are external links to trustworthy sources of information about HIV, such as the Coalition for Harm Reduction and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal government agency devoted to public health. Additionally, a link embedded within the guide allows matriculated New School student readers to register for HIV testing through Student Health Services.

People who contributed to the guide include Eugene Lang College faculty member Ted Kerr, as well as students and individuals whose relationship to The New School is unknown to The New School Archives.

Archivist Jenny Swadosh requested that this guide be downloaded and preserved as evidence of changing attitudes toward prevention, care, and de-stigmatization around issues of HIV, especially in the years immediately following the Covid-19 pandemic. Researchers may compare language used in the guide with earlier guides and advice for young people on prevention and living with HIV/AIDS.