HIV AIDS News

New government data shows testing for HIV suffered a sharp setback during the first year of the pandemic.

The CDC and Florida Department of Health are investigating a growing meningococcal disease outbreak in Florida, which the CDC called “one of the worst outbreaks” of the disease in U.S. history.

New research shows that even after vaccination, living with HIV ups the odds for COVID infection.

Studies looking at HIV and menopause are few and far between, and some reach conflicting findings.

This week’s news that a third person has been “cured” of HIV through a unique transplant of stem cells has given hope for a larger-scale way to beat back the HIV epidemic that has plagued the world for decades. But while this case is certainly cause for celebration, experts involved in the effort say we are still a long way from a universal cure.

Before now, only two people, both men, had been cured of HIV through bone marrow transplant. This is the first case of a woman, and someone cured using cord blood instead of bone marrow transplant.

The variant seems to attack a patient's immune system much more aggressively than more common strains.

Human clinical trials have started for an experimental HIV vaccine that uses the same kind of mRNA technology found in Moderna’s successful COVID-19 vaccine, the drug company announced this week.

The FDA recently approved a first long-acting, injectable HIV prevention for everyone. But will everyone get it?

Until now, two types of daily pills (Truvada and Descovy) were the only options for what's called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Research suggests men who had high levels of inflammation-causing bacteria in their intestinal tract may have had a greater risk for contracting HIV.

The end of Canada’s ban on gay and bisexual men from donating blood based on sexual orientation alone may soon be history.

Promising to take “aggressive action” to end HIV in the U.S., President Joe Biden on Worlds Aids Day on Wednesday announced a 3-year roadmap to help reduce new HIV transmissions in the U.S. by 90% by 2030. And he did so by being the first U.S. president to link systemic racism and other discrimination directly to the prolonged HIV epidemic.

Officials say new infections have declined among white gay and bisexual men over the past decade, but Black and Hispanic counterparts did not see that advance.

The woman is the second known person to have potentially cleared HIV infection naturally.

Findings could help people with HIV keep the virus in remission without taking medications that can have long-term side effects,

The Black women members of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) are far from the first to bring their expertise to the HIV epidemic, as Daniel Royles, PhD, an assistant professor of history at Florida International University, learned when he started working on a history of AIDS activism in Philadelphia.

In August, when Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine swore in eight new members to the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), the U.S.’s most influential policy sounding board of people living with HIV, their clinicians, drug makers, and public health leaders, she was presiding over the largest group of HIV advisers since former President Donald Trump fired the entire membership in June 2017.

A new study warns people with HIV have an increased risk of sudden cardiac death, especially if the virus isn't well-controlled.

An mRNA vaccine targeting HIV will soon enter phase I clinical study.

Johnson & Johnson's clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine has failed.

For years, men who have sex with men have faced extra restrictions if they tried to donate blood. A study now underway may lead to a shift in policy.

Nearly all health insurers must cover the entire cost of HIV prevention treatments. The two approved pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs are Truvada and Descovy.

Autopsies of those with HIV found scarring of the heart muscle -- called fibrosis -- which may explain why sudden cardiac death is more likely.

Despite significant advances in HIV research, prevention, and treatment, HIV is still criminalized both in the U.S. and abroad. Is this the ultimate challenge to ending the epidemic?