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Features - HIV/AIDS Issues
How AIDS Was Branded: Looking Back at ACT UP Design
In a 1987 speech, the public health advocate Larry Kramer urged that HIV-related illness be seen as a new kind of contagion. ACT UP (the …

Gay Men's Health Crisis Responds to Needle Exchange Funding Ban
Congress removed funding for syringe exchange programs in the budget they passed last week and the Gay Men's Health Crisis say that was a…

Civil Society Partnership Advisor, UNAIDS New York UN Headquarters Liaison Office
HIV Is Not a Crime is a shocking film that asks some basic questions we all need to think about.

Do you think people living wi…

HIV Vaccine: FDA Approves Human Trials Of Promising Vaccine, Uses Killed Whole Virus
Canadian researchers have been given the green light for human testing of an experimental HIV vaccine, but the initial trial will determi…

Every Day Is World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day has always been bittersweet for me. On the one hand, it's a day when much of the media focuses on a global pandemic that d…

New Drugs Control Older HIV Drug Resistance


A new study shows dramatic improvement in the ability of those with HIV to control virus resistant to older antivirals.̷…

HIV Infections Remain Steady, Increase Among Young and Black MSM
A new study has revealed that new HIV infections in the U.S. are averaging about 50,000 per year. However, the data also revealed an alar…

HIV/AIDS at 30: Conference Report

Battling HIV: A New Day Dawns

"We are at a scientific watershed in the global AIDS response," declared IAS 2011 Chair Elly Katabira. "We have witnessed two years of s…

AIDS In America: 30 Years In, New Map Shows Epidemic Still Widespread
Three decades ago this week, the first federal announcement on AIDS was released. As the first handful of patients arrived in hospitals, …

States cut back efforts to provide drugs for HIV, AIDS
Cash-strapped states are scaling back efforts to provide life-saving medicines to HIV patients.

The result: more than 8,300 pe…

Early H.I.V. Therapy Sharply Curbs Transmission
People infected with the virus that causes AIDS are far less likely to infect their sexual partners if they are put on treatment immediat…

Learning From Our Global HIV/AIDS Programs
Last week, I was in Johannesburg, South Africa, where I attended the annual meeting of the Presidentâs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. K…

National Museum of American History Marks 30th Anniversary of HIV and AIDS
The Smithsonianâs National Museum of American History will mark the 30th anniversary of the emergence of what became known as the HIV and…

Advances in HIV Mean Something for Everyone
By Healthy Living News
Chilly Boston temperatures and a freshly fallen snow couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of attendees at this years Conference on Retroviruses…

POSITIVELY AWARE 15th Annual HIV Drug Guide now available
The 15th Annual Positively Aware HIV Drug Guide, widely recognized throughout the country as the ãmust-haveä reference tool for HIV servi…

Fewer than half of Americans have had HIV test
Fewer than half of Americans have had an AIDS test since guidelines were expanded to include routine screening, according to a government…

Pill shows a drop of up to 70% in HIV infection risk
In a finding that is being widely hailed as the first major prevention breakthrough in the AIDS era, researchers have shown that taking a…

Kidney Transplants OK for People With HIV
People with HIV who are prone to kidney disease or other problems have been cleared to safely receive kidney transplants, researchers ann…

Nearly one in five gay men in large cities has HIV
Nineteen percent of men who have sex with men in a study of 21 U.S. cities was found to be infected with HIV and nearly half did not know…

Secretary Sebelius Addresses US Conference on AIDS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today addressed the 2010 United States Conference on AIDS in Orl…

Young Gay Men and HIV/AIDS
In the USA, the UK, and a number of other European countries, HIV and AIDS have affected young gay men more than any other group of peopl…

HIV/AIDS 101
HIV and AIDS are not the same thing...
H
IV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus that attacks and breaks down the body's i…


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