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Groups call for halt to CDC's HIV genetic surveillance program

For years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been tracking outbreaks of HIV infections using genetic sequencing. Some are calling for this practice to stop. Sam Whitehead of Kaiser Health News’ Southern Bureau has been reporting on this. He spoke with GPB’s Peter Biello.

August 04, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Dozens of <em>Leishmania</em> parasites (purple) surround 3 white blood cells (orange) in this image magnified 1,000 times.

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  • Global Health

A nasty disease is even nastier for patients with HIV. Now there's encouraging news

It's called visceral leishmaniasis. It's spread by sandflies and fatal if left untreated. Fortunately, a new drug regimen holds promise.

July 07, 2022
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
DeMarcus Beckham, HIV advocate in the North Central Public Health district, performs a demonstration of an HIV test. Rapid HIV blood tests take less than five minutes for results.

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  • Health

Georgia has some of the highest HIV rates in the country. But treatment has never been easier

The ability to know your HIV status only takes minutes, which should mean good things for preventing new infections.

July 01, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Scientists have discovered that a drug used to treat HIV helps restore a particular kind of memory loss in mice. The results hold promise for humans, too.

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  • Health

A drug for HIV appears to reverse a type of memory loss in mice

In mice, the HIV drug maraviroc restored a system that links new memories that are made around the same time. The finding could help treat memory problems in people.

May 28, 2022
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
A man uses a safe injection site in New York City in January. A bill in California would allow pilot sites in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles.

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  • Health Care

California debates opening supervised sites for people to use drugs

Advocates of the proposal say it would prevent overdoses, slow the spread of HIV and inspire drug users to seek help, while proponents say safe injection sites would create an "open drug scene."

May 23, 2022
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By:
  • Lesley McClurg
There are parallels between COVID and HIV. Despite effective treatment and prevention tools, preventable deaths continue because of difficulties reaching out to and educating people about the tools. And even as the country seems determined to move on from the pandemic, as of April 2022, someone dies of COVD-19 every four minutes in the U.S.

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  • Health

Despite effective treatments, HIV drags on. Experts warn COVID may face the same fate

HIV remains a problem in the U.S. because people don't use life-saving prevention and treatments. COVID is heading down the same path. Here are insights from people fighting on the frontlines of HIV.

April 19, 2022
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
A colorized electron microscope image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a single human immunodeficiency virus budding from a human immune cell.

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  • Global Health

Discovery of HIV variant shows virus can evolve to be more severe — and contagious

Findings from a new study help answer questions about why some people get more severe and transmissible HIV than others — and serve as a reminder that viruses don't always weaken over time.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
HIV test

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  • Health

Report urges Medicaid expansion to combat Georgia’s HIV crisis

Expanding Medicaid would give coverage to thousands of uninsured HIV patients in Georgia and provide millions of dollars of additional services for people infected with the virus, a recently released study says.

February 03, 2022
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  • Andy Miller
Apretude, a new drug approved by the FDA this week, is an injection that has proven to be significantly more effective at reducing the risk of sexually-acquired HIV.

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  • Medical Treatments

A new injection to prevent HIV, rather than pills, is a game-changer, scientists say

The Food and Drug Administration this week approved an injectable drug that helps prevent the spread of HIV. It only has to be taken once every eight weeks, compared to a daily oral pill.

December 23, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Here's a computer-generated image of the omicron variant of the coronavirus — also known as B.1.1.529. Reported in South Africa on Nov. 24, this variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning.

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  • Global Health

The mystery of where omicron came from — and why it matters

How did this new strain of the coronavirus evolve? Researchers are investigating various possibilities. One leading theory involves ... just one person.

December 03, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
It seemed as if the 2005 album by Kenneth Kaunda, <em>We Shall Fight HIV/AIDS, </em>had vanished. But then ... it was found! Here's what could be the sole surviving copy, now being remastered for re-release this year.

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  • Music

They Found It! The Long-Lost Album By Zambia's President: 'We Shall Fight HIV/AIDS'

Kenneth Kaunda spoke out about HIV when African leaders would not even acknowledge its existence. He sang about it, too, in a 2005 album that made a splash, then vanished. And so a search began.

September 26, 2021
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By:
  • Aaron Cohen
Governor Brian Kemp with doctors from the Medical Center at Atrium Health in Macon in 2020.

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  • Health

Kemp Cites Nonexistent AIDS Vaccine In COVID-19 Debate

Gov. Brian Kemp has invoked a nonexistent AIDS vaccine mandate in his recent arguments against mandates for COVID-19 vaccinations. 

September 22, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A meeting of the table banking group at the home of a member. The photo is from 2019, when No Sex for Fish (and the village) were thriving.

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  • Global Health

Whatever Happened To ... The Women Who Boldly Declared: 'No Sex For Fish'?

Women in a Kenyan village had a radical idea to stop the practice of trading sex for fish to sell: What if they owned their own boats? They had great success. Then came a series of terrible setbacks.

September 19, 2021
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By:
  • Viola Kosome and
  • Marc Silver
Tori Cooper is the first Black transgender woman appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

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  • Health

1st Black Trans Woman On Presidential HIV/AIDS Panel Seeks To Focus On Equality

As the first Black transgender woman to serve in this capacity, Tori Cooper says she is eager to advocate on behalf of all transgender and non-binary people living with HIV.

August 21, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
A supporter for the transgender and non-binary community, wearing a transgender flag with handwritten names of black trans women who the person said were killed in 2019, strolls through the city's Midtown district during Gay Pride Festival's Transgender Rights March in Atlanta on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Through Trials And Triumphs, LGBTQ+ Pride 50 Years After First Georgia March

Tuesday on Political Rewind: It has been 50 years since Atlanta’s first gay pride parade kicked off on Peachtree street in Atlanta. It was a small but momentous event. At the time, homosexuality was illegal under Georgia law, and members of the queer community typically lived lives in the shadows. But on June 27, 1971, marchers in Atlanta demanded an end to persecution and marginalization.

June 29, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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