HIV & AIDS

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AIDS United Launches Advisory Council to Advance HIV Care and Prevention for Black Women

AIDS United’s Melanated Movement team is proud to announce the launch of the Melanated Movement Engagement Advisory Council, a group of women-identified leaders committed to reshaping the narrative around HIV care and prevention for both Cis and Transgender women. Rooted in the principles of ViiV Healthcare’s From Risk to Reasons initiative, the Melanated Movement portfolio focuses on the motivations, strengths, and resilience that empower Black women to take charge of their sexual and reproductive health for both Cisgender and Transgender women. The Advisory Council will serve as a guiding body, helping shape the program’s growth, outreach, and impact while ensuring that the voices and experiences of […]

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The president just halved the budget of a massively successful HIV-prevention program

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The current presidential administration is slashing the lifesaving PEPFAR program for HIV relief, despite earlier public assurances to lawmakers and advocates that funding for the program was secure. Funding will be cut by half for both this and next year’s federal budgets, before he shuts down the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) completely, according to members of the program’s staff as well as budget documents viewed by The New York Times. PEPFAR has saved an estimated 26 million lives since it was introduced by President George W. Bush in 2003. The massive cuts come after PEPFAR’s supporters were lulled into […]

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How the Black AIDS Institute continues to fill in the gaps

Grazell Howard is a living embodiment of the Black AIDS Institute’s motto of “Our People. Our Problem. Our Solution.” Clear-eyed about the failures of a movement to truly address the needs of those most impacted by the virus, her assessment of this moment in which Black and brown communities are still disproportionately affected by HIV is simple.  “I think what we did, unintentionally, is we went to the largest disease-burdened group, which were men who have sex with men — and that’s fine, that’s what you’re supposed to do,” she said. “However, we never then came back and said, ‘It impacts all of us. We […]

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House Oversight Democrats demand records over RFK Jr.’s HIV program cuts

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Two senior House Democrats, including the first out gay immigrant member of Congress, are demanding records and explanations from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following what they describe as a politically driven dismantling of HIV prevention, treatment, and research programs under the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal. In a Thursday letter to Kennedy, Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee and representing California, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, ranking member of the Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services and representing Illinois, accused HHS of systematically abandoning decades of bipartisan progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS in both domestic […]

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U.S. program to combat HIV/AIDS survives Trump’s latest round of cuts

PEPFAR, the popular global HIV/AIDS program credited with saving millions of lives, has been spared from a package of billions of dollars in spending cuts that Congress sent to President Donald Trump early Friday morning to sign into law. The original rescissions package Trump requested called for $400 million in cuts to PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which George W. Bush started in 2003.  But in the Senate, Democrats and a handful of Republicans objected to the PEPFAR cuts. Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the health program had saved an estimated 26 million lives and allowed nearly 8 […]

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HIV Awareness still belongs at the heart of Pride Month

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It has been said that the first Pride was a riot, sparked by the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. The meaning of Pride Month has expanded and evolved since Stonewall and the subsequent first Pride Parade in 1970. Though Pride was established before the rise of HIV and AIDS, HIV awareness and advocacy have stood at the center of Pride since the early days of the illness.  Though HIV is no longer the death sentence it once was, there are still approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States and over 30,000 new infections every year. The continued prevalence of HIV […]

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The staggering scale of Donald Trump’s War on HIV funding

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Since 1989, the LGBT Life Center in Norfolk, Virginia, has built up what CEO Stacie Walls calls a “test and treat” model. For every patient that walked through the doors of their HIV clinic after working up the courage to get tested, there had been the promise that, if they tested positive, all they’d need to do to get treatment was walk down the hallway. But since the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to HIV funding took place earlier this year, that’s no longer the case. “The grant money that pays for people who are uninsured is the grant money that […]

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By maintaining Obamacare pillar, Supreme Court hands win to HIV advocates

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the HIV-prevention field a historic win — yet with a major caveat — as it upheld a federally appointed health task force’s authority to mandate no-cost insurance coverage of certain preventive interventions, but clarifying that the health and human services secretary holds dominion over the panel.  The 6-3 decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. essentially leaves in place a popular pillar of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates that most insurers cover various task force-recommended preventive screenings, therapies and interventions, with no out-of-pocket costs imposed on patients. The case reached the high court after a group of […]

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The Staggering Scale of Trump’s ‘War on HIV’

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Since 1989, the LGBT Life Center in Norfolk, VA has built up what CEO Stacie Walls calls a “test and treat” model. For every patient that walked through the doors of their HIV clinic after working up the courage to get tested, there had been the promise that, if they tested positive, all they’d need to do to get treatment is walk down the hallway. But since the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to HIV funding took place earlier this year, that’s no longer the case. “The grant money that pays for people who are uninsured is the grant money that […]

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FDA approves breakthrough drug that reduces risk of contracting HIV by 96 percent

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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a breakthrough medication that reduces the risk of contracting HIV by 96 percent. Gilead’s Yeztugo, generic name lenacapavir (LEN), has been approved for prevention after highly successful trials in September found that it nearly eliminated the spread of the virus among patients, showing a 96 percent relative risk reduction versus bHIV. The drug had already been approved for treatment of multidrug-resistant HIV. The drug is meant to be given as an injection by health care workers in clinics every six months. It is currently priced at $14,109 per injection, or $2,352 per month, according to NBC News, making it unclear […]

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