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The CDC is detailing what it says is the first known cases of HIV transmitted by "vampire facial" injections. In a joint investigation with the CDC and New Mexico's health officials, investigators ...
The CDC's $1.3 billion Division of HIV Prevention is tasked with tracking infections across the United States and promoting testing and prevention, including the use of HIV prevention medications ...
A CDC disparity report found that from 2010 to 2019, gay and bisexual men who are Latino and Black experienced higher rates of new HIV infections. Is US safer from guns? Start the day smarter ☀ ...
Two CDC campaigns, launched in 2007 and 2011, set out to encourage testing and early HIV care on the part of African Americans and Latinos, and particularly among men who have sex with men.
On any given day, the health staff with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation are out making the rounds to nightclubs, community festivals, concerts, and area colleges and universities, any place black ...
Dec. 1 marks the 22nd anniversary of World AIDS Day. This year's theme — universal access and human rights — underscores the need for prevention and treatment for all people around the world.
The key to HIV treatment as prevention is meds you’ll take daily. The regimen itself is called antiretroviral therapy , or ART. It’s ideal to start as soon as you’ve been diagnosed.
Around 32,100 Americans were newly infected by HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — in 2021, the CDC estimated, dropping 12% from about 36,500 infections in 2017.
A CDC webpage says that in the 2023 fiscal year, Congress appropriated roughly $1.3 billion for the CDC’s HIV, viral hepatitis, STD and tuberculosis prevention budget.
HIV cases have been on the decline in recent years, largely driven by fewer cases among young people, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found. Estimated yearly ...
In 1989, Ronald Johnson did not think he would live to see old age. Johnson, a Black gay man, was diagnosed with HIV that year, during the height of the U.S. AIDS epidemic, when the life ...
Yeztugo, approved by the FDA, was highly effective in two randomized trials. It costs $28,218 per year, and people have to be ...