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On Dec.1, communities across the nation will commemorate World AIDS Day. First memorialized in 1988, World AIDS Day offers the opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show support for people living with HIV, and remember...

Some people are born with everything stacked against them. But this story doesn’t end the way you think it does, in large part due to some unexpected U.S. allies.Lumba is a 7th grader who dreams of becoming a lawyer, but in truth, she’s a girl...

It is widely unknown amongst the general population in the U.S. that we currently have antiquated and discriminatory laws that criminalize people living with HIV.Two thirds of U.S. states, territories, and possessions have HIV-specific criminal...

In 2003 I travelled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the first time. Like most of the continent, Tanzania was staggering under the burden of a burgeoning AIDS epidemic. AIDS was still a death sentence.I met women with HIV whose babies were born with...

All Americans have benefitted from the expansion of healthcare access under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Sharp annual increases in healthcare costs have been tamed, at least for the last few years.More than 20 million individuals now have health...

HIV is often characterized as a disease that overwhelmingly affects gay and bisexual men, subsequently obscuring the significant and unique risks experienced by women. In truth, 27 percent of all new HIV cases are attributed to women, making HIV/...

With one word recently, Georgia state Rep. Betty Price (R) brought back memories of a desperate time when, in the absence of scientific answers to an emerging HIV pandemic, fear guided policies, fed stigma, hobbled evidence-based responses, and...

This Dec. 1 marks the 15th World AIDS Day since the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed and nearly as many years since George W. Bush launched the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest...

Former President Obama teamed up with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to encourage people to support the fight against AIDS.On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Obama in a video said everyone has a role to play in this World AIDS Day."This World AIDS Day...

On World AIDS Day, we honor lives cut short by HIV and celebrate tremendous progress toward ending the epidemic. As research continues toward a vaccine and a cure, we already have the tools to bend the epidemic curve toward zero new infections and...

Many people immediately think of a doctor in a white coat carrying a stethoscope when they hear the word “health,” but in truth, the greatest opportunities to improve health happen pretty much everywhere but the doctor’s office. Rates of chronic...

As someone who worked for decades on poverty in the U.S. before focusing on international development, I find it worth exploring what lessons from the global experience might be relevant to today’s opioid crisis in the U.S.The opioid crisis is one...

With his first State of the Union Address behind him, President Trump has a historic opportunity to help America make real and lasting progress in the fight to end the epidemic of HIV/AIDS. After years of gains in treatment and prevention, new...

Is HIV even still a problem? The answer is yes and that is part of the problem because we don’t talk about it. Abstinence-only education ignores the realities of how both teens and adults express themselves sexually and is partly the blame, starving...

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10 provides an important opportunity to mark the progress that has been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS among women in America.In just five years, from 2011 to 2015, the number of new HIV...

Robert Redfield, an HIV/AIDS expert at the University of Maryland Medical Center, is seen as the White House’s favored candidate to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to Politico.The Trump administration is...

A top-ranking Senate Democrat said she was concerned about the Trump administration’s reported choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and...

Grindr, a gay dating and hook-up app, has reportedly provided its users’ HIV statuses to two outside companies.Apptimize and Localytics, both data-optimization firms, have received certain information that some Grindr users choose to include in...

Two Democratic senators are demanding the gay dating app Grindr explain how it protects privacy following news the company shares self-reported data on users’ HIV status.“Simply using an app should not give companies a license to carelessly handle,...

Central Australia is being ravaged by an epidemic of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1. A staggering 40 percent of adults in rural Australia are infected. This epidemic is in addition to the estimated 10-20 million people infected with...

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