? June marks the 25-year anniversary since scientists discovered HIV. Years later, a Brooklyn community is working hard to fight the disease.

Health professionals and leaders gathered for a conference Thursday in Crown Heights to form a plan to reduce transmission of HIV and raise awareness. That plan includes having HIV-AIDS education at churches, focusing on the over-50 population and other age groups. A doctor with the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation says AIDS has killed about 500,000 Americans since it was first discovered and continues to kill people, especially in the African-American community at alarming rates.

The Centers for Disease Control named the HIV disease, which causes AIDS, on June 5, 1981.