Lily Rothman, TIME MAGAZINE (TIME)—Dec. 1 has been World AIDS Day since 1988 — but though the awareness and activism around the diseases has changed...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an ongoing effort to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic physicians, healthcare workers and human rights...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist As we prepare to commemorate World AIDS Day on Monday, Dec. 1, this is a good time to look at...
(Medical News Today) – Reporting their findings in the journal Science, the international team, led by researchers at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, say because of...
Lynsey Chutel, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Namibia’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that health workers sterilized HIV-positive women without their consent, a human rights...
(The Body) – A new study suggests that many African Americans may not be getting effective doses of the HIV drug Selzentry (also known as Celsentri or maraviroc)....
(The Washington Post) – More than 80 percent of women diagnosed with HIV contract the virus through heterosexual sex. A condom provides the best protection against HIV — but...
By Linda Villarosa Special to the NNPA from The Black AIDS Institute MELBOURNE, Australia – Is the glass half empty – or half full? That was...
(The Philadelphia Inquirer) Temple University researchers have used state-of-the-art molecular scissors to cut out dormant HIV hiding in human cells, fueling hopes for curing –...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer A Mississippi girl born with the AIDS virus and in remission for more than two years despite stopping treatment now...
By Phill Wilson NNPA Guest Columnist Do you know your HIV status? Do you know the HIV status of your intimate partner(s)? Do all of your...
[TECHSONIA] Truvada is a drug that functions against HIV. It was approved in the early 2000s. It lowers virus production and slows disease progression in the...
KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two health organizations filed a complaint with federal health officials Thursday alleging some Florida insurance companies are...
(IOL News) – Religious activists, students and colleagues gathered outside Jamaica’s biggest university on Monday to protest the firing of an HIV expert who testified on...
(Los Angeles Times) – Here was a story, it seemed, that resonated with a disparate and diffuse metropolis. It was the tale of one...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson says Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has badly outdated views about minorities and is...
(New York Times) – OTIMATI, South Africa — While around the world a vast majority of AIDS victims are men, Africa has long been the glaring exception: Nearly 60...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A handful of sex workers sit on discarded cardboard along a filthy sewer channel, sharing food and razors...
[Medical News Today] National Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a new class of protein found in sea coral that appears able to prevent HIV from entering...
[Time] Half of all Americans believe in that, or one of five other medical conspiracy theories. About half of the grownup population in the U.S. believes...
[New York Times] The first confirmed case of lesbian transmission of H.I.V. was reported on Thursday by federal health officials, who said the event was exceedingly...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative to the daily pills...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s government has been hit with substantial aid cuts after the president enacted a severe anti-gay measure over...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even though Blacks get tested for HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), the virus that causes AIDS more than...
[AllAfrica] A new anti-gay law signed on Monday by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan risks hindering progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, UNAIDS and the...
