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Eight Times More Young Adults Take Meds To Protect Against HIV Infection

FRIDAY, May 30, 2025 — Eight times more young Americans are taking antiretroviral meds to protect them from HIV infection than a decade ago, a new study says. About 208 of every 100,000 U.S. young a...

ACP Issues Clinical Guideline for Statin Use in Persons With HIV

THURSDAY, May 29, 2025 – In a clinical guideline issued by the American College of Physicians and published online May 27 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, recommendations are presented for the...

Exposure to Certain HIV Drugs May Significantly Lower Risk for Alzheimer Disease

TUESDAY, May 20, 2025 – Exposure to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), which treat HIV and hepatitis B and inhibit inflammasome activation, is associated with a significantly lower...

HIV Pills Might Prevent Alzheimer's

TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 — Drugs that battle HIV and hepatitis B might be able to help people avoid Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says. Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are used to ...

Guidelines Updated for Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis for HIV

FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 – Updated recommendations for antiretroviral nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (nPEP) for HIV have been published in the May 8 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease...

$800M in LGBTQ Health Research Funding Nixed by Trump Administration

TUESDAY, May 6, 2025 — The Trump administration has canceled more than $800 million in research focused on LGBTQ health, cutting hundreds of studies on cancer, HIV and other diseases that affect s...

Urticaria Reported in Trial of Investigational HIV mRNA Vaccines

MONDAY, May 5, 2025 – Urticaria is seen in association with experimental HIV-1 mRNA vaccination, according to a study published online April 29 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Sharon A. Riddler,...

High Blood Pressure, Diabetes More Fatal For Men

FRIDAY, May 2, 2025 – Men are more likely than women to die from high blood pressure, diabetes and HIV/AIDS, after shrugging off medical care for the conditions, a new study says. These differences...

Supreme Court Case Targets Free Preventive Care Provided By The Affordable Care Act

MONDAY, April 21, 2025 – Colonoscopy for younger adults. Chest CT scans for lung cancer. Statin meds to lower cholesterol. Screening for drug addiction. More than 150 million Americans might lose...

Half-Million Children Could Die If U.S. AIDS Relief Is Dropped

FRIDAY, April 11, 2025 — Nearly a half-million children could die from AIDS by 2030 if President Donald Trump follows through on plans to cut U.S. relief programs, a new study says. As many as 1 m...

Key HIV Care Teams Let Go, Putting Mothers and Children at Risk

WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2025 – The Trump administration has let go of the last remaining U.S. health officials who oversaw HIV care for more than 1.1 million mothers and children in low-income...

U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Could Devastate Global Progress Against HIV/AIDS

THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – HIV could explode worldwide in the wake of U.S. cuts to foreign aid, resulting in millions of AIDS deaths and soaring rates of infection, a new analysis says. President...

U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Could Devastate Global Progress Against HIV/AIDS

THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – HIV could explode worldwide in the wake of U.S. cuts to foreign aid, resulting in millions of AIDS deaths and soaring rates of infection, a new analysis says. President...

Funding Reductions Could Reverse Progress in HIV Response

THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – Funding reductions could reverse progress in the HIV response by 2030, with the greatest effects anticipated in countries with a higher percentage of international funding...

Trump Administration May Cut CDC's HIV Prevention Division

THURSDAY, March 20, 2025 – The Trump administration is weighing elimination of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division on HIV Prevention, sparking concerns among public h...

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