Treatment as Prevention¨

At the 13th annual HIV Treatment and Prevention Adherence conference, health care and service providers gathered to learn about new treatments for people living with HIV and the best clinical practices to support adherence to them. At their best, HIV providers serve as a trusted conduit for their patients from the research world to the […]

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is spread through contaminated blood, unprotected sex, and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding. Healthy skin and other bodily fluids like saliva and tears do not transmit HIV. Six to 10 years after contamination and without treatment, HIV infection leads to AIDS and death by general failure

Your sex life doesn’t stop after HIV – in fact, it could actually get better. Here’s how. No one’s ready for the news that they are HIV positive. I remember where I was. The doctor was a stern-faced woman with blonde hair and a golden cross dangling around her neck. She said “HIV” slowly, with

In HIV, we pay a lot of attention to parenthood — but mostly from the perspective of ending mother-to-child transmission. Even then, the public health message is often mostly about the baby, not the health and well-being of the mother. But almost nowhere do we have deep discussions about reproductive options for HIV-positive men, particularly

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new study of gay and bisexual men taking PrEP or pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV acquisition published in the Lancet HIV Journal last week confirms long-held concerns of public health advocates affiliated with AHF: While the use of PrEP may result in a decrease in transmission of HIV, it also contributes to

IN FLORIDA-It’s a Tuesday afternoon in April, and doctors at the adult HIV/AIDS clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami face their usual onslaught of patients. There’s the young, recently diagnosed gay man from Venezuela here for his first appointment. An older gay man who emigrated from Colombia and has been treated at the clinic

In 2015, Pavel Lobkov, a news anchor on TV Rain, an independent station in Moscow, confronted a predicament unlike any he had faced in more than 2 decades working as a journalist. It was World AIDS Day, and he was slated to host a show. His guest was the head of the Federal Center for

WASHINGTON – The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a partnership between the United States government and African countries, has contributed to a transformation in health systems across the continent. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, was one of PEPFAR’s key architects. He