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News Articles: HIV/AIDS

A woman in Nairobi, Kenya, who is HIV positive takes antiretroviral pills, which suppress the virus. The U.S. program PEPFAR is instrumental in providing these life-saving medications around the world.

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  • Global Health

Conflicting signals from Trump could disrupt HIV meds. What's the impact?

A series of orders from the Trump administration have the potential to disrupt the delivery of life-saving medications to HIV positive people. Here's what a disruption of this drug regimen would mean.

February 01, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
A mobile lab visits a village in the war-torn Kharkiv region. Villagers line up for general checkups. HIV testing and treatment is a big part of the agenda.<br>

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  • Global Health

Ukraine keeps up the fight against HIV while fighting a war

Progress in preventing infections was being made in the country with Europe's second-highest number of HIV cases. Then came the Russian invasion.

September 19, 2024
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By:
  • David Cox
Marc Franke, known as "the Düsseldorf patient," is one of only seven patients in the world to be cured of HIV. His treatment involved a stem cell transplant. “It was a very rocky road,” he says. “I had so many troubles.”

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  • Global Health

One of the 7 people cured of HIV tells his story. Can his cure work for others?

The "Dusseldorf patient" spoke at last week's AIDS 2024 conference in Munich. Here's what doctors did — and what they say about their ability to replicate the procedure.

July 30, 2024
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By:
  • David Cox
A pharmacist holds a vial of lenacapavir, the HIV prevention injectable drug that was shown to be 100% effective in newly published clinical trial data.

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  • Global Health

New HIV preventive strategy sparks excitement -- and protests -- at AIDS conference

The final results of a trial for a new HIV preventive strategy are out today. Experts express enthusiasm. But activists at the 2024 AIDS conference in Munich are protesting the likely cost.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
A man waits in line to receive a monkeypox vaccine in Brooklyn, N.Y., earlier this month.

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  • Health

As monkeypox spreads, know the difference between warning and stigmatizing people

While the current monkeypox outbreak appears to mostly affect men who have sex with other men, others are still at risk. History and public health experts say it's dangerous to suggest otherwise.

July 26, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Urvashi Vaid, then-executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, protests at then-President George H.W. Bush's address on AIDS in March 1990 in Arlington, Virginia. The pioneering LGBTQ activist and attorney died last week at age 63.

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  • Obituaries

Remembering Urvashi Vaid, an LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality

Colleagues, friends and admirers are paying tribute to Vaid, the pioneering attorney and organizer who died at age 63 on Friday. She worked for the ACLU and National LGBTQ Task Force, among others.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Volunteers stand after lighting candles in the shape of a red ribbon during an awareness event ahead of World AIDS Day in Kathmandu on Tuesday.

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  • Global Health

What the AIDS crisis can teach us about the COVID pandemic response

This is the second World AIDS Day during the coronavirus pandemic. Public health officials are calling on world leaders to do more to address the inequities at the root of both crises.

December 01, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
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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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Brooke Parker, an organizer with the group Solutions Oriented Addiction Response, displays an HIV testing kit in Charleston, W.Va., in March. Outbreaks of HIV/AIDS are expected to rise as resources have been redirected to the fight against COVID-19 — delaying and sometimes cutting off HIV testing and treatment.

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  • Health

Strides Against HIV/AIDS In The U.S. Falter As Resources Diverted To Fight COVID-19

Experts fear steep declines in testing and diagnoses mean more people will contract HIV and die of AIDS. The problem is particularly acute in the South, the epicenter of the nation's HIV crisis.

April 21, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah Varney
Pretty Mkhabela, a HIV-positive sex worker in South Africa, gets antiretroviral drugs delivered to her house as part of a campaign to maintain treatment for HIV-positive patients during the pandemic. A new drug called cabotegravir could give women more options to protect themselves from HIV infection.

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  • Global Health

Protecting Women Against HIV Just Got 9 Times Easier

A single injection of a drug called cabotegravir given every two months has been shown to be more effective than a daily oral dose of Truvada.

November 11, 2020
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
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  • Global Health

What Happens When A Pandemic And An Epidemic Collide

At the international AIDS conference last week — held virtually — concerns were shared about the impact of the novel coronavirus on efforts to fight AIDS.

July 14, 2020
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By:
  • Susan Brink
In this June 27, 2013, file photo, Reggie Batiste, program manager with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, administers a free HIV test as part of National HIV Testing Day in Atlanta.

DeKalb County Gets $1.5M From CDC To Fight HIV

A metro Atlanta county will be one of three pilot sites nationwide to run a federal program aimed at preventing the spread of HIV, health officials said...

December 10, 2019
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge and
  • Sophia Saliby

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  • News

OST Full Show: Sisterlove Inc., Bankhead, Buford Highway

Being diagnosed with HIV is no longer a death sentence. In Atlanta, SisterLove, Inc. focuses on improving access to prevention resources. Tonight, the...

October 19, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • and 6 more

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  • News

On Second Thought For Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019

About 250 Atlanta citizens with HIV or AIDS could face eviction. Willoughby Mariano, a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , and Patrick...

August 06, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • and 5 more
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar during an interview at the 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Trump Plan To End HIV By 2030

Just over a month after President Donald Trump shared his goal to eliminate HIV in the next decade, his health secretary is out touting details of how...

March 20, 2019
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  • Robert Jimison and
  • Morgan Carter
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