HIV/AIDS

“Important discoveries stimulated by COVID-19 may also help us make progress against HIV/AIDS,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.

Some researchers believe COVID-19 has derailed the fight against HIV and set back a U.S. campaign to decimate the AIDS epidemic by 2030

Dr. Anthony Fauci has won a $1 million award from a private Israeli foundation for “courageously defending science” during the coronavirus pandemic

U.S. regulators have approved the first long-acting drug combo for HIV, monthly shots that can replace daily pills.

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and the World Health Organization has mixed news about the progress made in fighting the disease.

The first person known to be cured of HIV infection, Timothy Ray Brown, has died

Doctors say a Brazilian man who was infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body

Pharmacists in California will be able to dispense HIV prevention pills to patients without a doctor’s prescription after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that supporters say will greatly reduce the spread of infection.

HIV and AIDS patients may have suffered delays in treatment and other vital services because of mismanagement and incompetence within a Dallas County office, officials said Thursday.

From gritty neighborhoods in New York and Los Angeles to clinics in Kenya and Brazil, health workers are trying to popularize a pill that has proven highly effective in preventing HIV but which — in their view — remains woefully underused. Marketed in the United States as Truvada, and sometimes available abroad in generic versions, the pill has been shown...

December 1 is recognized globally as World AIDS Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) established the annual observance in 1988 as a way to offer communities the chance to unite to fight against the HIV/AIDS stigma, commemorate those who have lost the battle with AIDS, and also show support for those who are living with the disease. This year’s theme...

Scott Schoettes, Counsel and HIV Project Director at Lambda Legal, explained in a Newsweek op-ed Friday that he and five colleagues decided to leave their posts on the council in protest of the Trump administration, which they allege “has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic.”...
Schoettes, who is openly HIV positive, added that the White House is also pushing...

President Donald Trump is moving forward with a plan to massively expand a ban on federal dollars going to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information. Senior administration officials said Monday a plan to expand the so-called “Mexico City Policy” had gone into effect. The policy would apply broadly to organizations receiving U.S. global health assistance, compared with...