This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout
Lenacapavir, a twice yearly injection that prevents HIV transmission, was named the breakthrough medicine of 2024. But without US foreign aid dollars, its delivery to millions worldwide is under ...
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This is what happens to the body when HIV drugs are stopped for millions of people
A generation has passed since the peak in AIDS-related deaths. Few people under 30 years old understand what AIDS does to the ...
US aid freeze fuels fears of renewed AIDS epidemic: 'People are going to die'
NEWS ANALYSIS. Despite the waiver granted by the US, the global system for fighting HIV – which still causes 630,000 deaths a ...
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Pop music and AIDS: The good, the bad and the silent in a long overdue history
Astonishingly, Matthew J. Jones "How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981—1996" is the first academic book on pop music’s response to AIDS before effective ...
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Portland property recognized for LGBTQ+ significance during the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Erv Lind Field and McMenamins’ Crystal Hotel were added to the register for their LGBTQ+ significance last summer. Erv Lind ...
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‘HIV is not a death sentence’: The Project of The Quad Cities helping erase the stigma around HIV/AIDS
TPQC was formed at the height of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in 1986. Since then, their services have evolved and expanded with their original core mission still intact. To this day, they are continuing ...
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HIV + Hepatitis Institute Welcomes RFK, Talks Importance of Ending the HIV Epidemic
The group released a statement today expressing that they are eager to work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eradicate HIV when ...
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AIDS Memorial Quilt exhibit at SFO honors lives lost, raises awareness to ongoing epidemic
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A memorial to the stories and lives of those lost to HIV and AIDs is now on exhibit at San Francisco International Airport. The AIDS Memorial Quilt has nearly 50,000 panels ...
HIV drugs stopped for millions by USAID cuts – this is the drastic effect it could have on their health
HIV drugs stopped for millions by USAID cuts – this is the drastic effect it could have on their health - A generation has ...
Bay Area HIV/AIDS expert sounds alarm on Trump's foreign aid cuts; threatens HIV prevention programs
"There is a model that every nine minutes, a child is dying because of these cuts. Right now," said Dr. Monica Gandhi, director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research. As Pres. Trump's push to shut down ...
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Research spotlight: Projecting the impact of funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Anne Neilan, MD, MPH, an associate professor of Pediatrics and physician investigator in the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, is corresponding author of a new ...
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HIV infections could jump over six times if U.S. support is dropped and not replaced, UNAIDS chief says
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said on Feb. 10 ... leaving health officials unable to track the epidemic. She noted that the loss of U.S. funding to HIV programs in some countries was ...