HIV

The federal Food and Drug Administration is considering further easing restrictions on blood donations by gay and bisexual men, a long criticized policy that first went into effect during the start of the AIDs pandemic, to focus instead on an individual risk of transmitting HIV....
The change would come as the country faces a continuing national blood shortage brought about by...

If there is a such thing as an ordinary heart transplant, this was not it. It marked the first time an HIV positive patient received a heart from an HIV positive donor.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a provision of the Affordable Care Act that mandates free coverage of certain drugs that prevent HIV infections violates the religious beliefs of a Christian-owned company.

One case involved a man with cancer who underwent a specialized stem cell transplant; the other involved a woman who received immune-boosting therapies as part of a clinical trial.

Following a cutting-edge treatment four years ago, the “New York patient” is now off of HIV medication and remains “asymptomatic and healthy,” researchers say.

Scientists have found a previously unrecognized variant of HIV that’s more virulent than usual and has quietly spread in the Netherlands for the past few decades.

Nearly 60 participants were given their first doses of the experimental HIV vaccine Thursday

Apretude, the new drug, is an injectable given every two months as an alternative to HIV prevention pills.

“So much of what prevents people from talking about HIV/AIDS is actually not having the language,” said David Johns of the National Black Justice Coalition. We need to move away from stigmatizing terms like “full blown AIDS” and create a more welcoming environment where people can be open about their HIV status, Johns says.

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

The co-authors of the study said they believe their findings will bring hope to the estimated 38 million people globally living with the virus.

As the very early stages of research for a cure get underway with Dr. Dan Barouch, a virologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and his team, Cambridge-based Moderna is set to start phase one human trials for an MRNA-based HIV vaccine.

“You might get a Donna Karan skirt for $7. You might get some Gucci shoes for $10. … But at the same time it provides a safe, nonjudgmental, nonstigmatizing place for folks to come and know their status and get tested.” Hear from the Out of the Closet thrift store in Dallas, which has an HIV/AIDS testing clinic and pharmacy on site.

The actor Billy Porter said he was HIV positive in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, going public with his status for the first time in 14 years. It was a brave decision and validates people struggling with HIV, which disproportionately affects Black gay and bisexual men. We heard more from Raniyah Copeland, CEO of the Black AIDS Institute and...

After testing positive in 2007, Billy Porter kept the diagnosis mainly to himself for 14 years.

The FDA launched a study that could lead to the removal of restrictions on blood donations by gay and bisexual men. Jason Cianciotto of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis joined LX News to talk about the first-of-its-kind study and why blood donation policies should be based on science, not stigma.

New numbers on the global AIDS epidemic are showing some big successes, but also some tragic failures

Massachusetts officials alerted health care providers to test frequently for HIV and to quickly report new infections to the Public Health Department. Officials discovered that there were 182 intravenous drug users who were affected in Lowell and Lawrence between 2015 and 2019, The Boston Globe reported. The number of cases dropped after the summer of 2018 after a campaign to…

On Sunday, World AIDS Day, the global fight against the human immunodeficiency virus is poised to make important advances thanks to three experimental HIV vaccines that are entering the final stages of testing at sites across the globe, NBC News reports. While any of these three late-stage HIV vaccine trials — known as HVTN 702, Imbokodo and Mosaico — could...

More than 1,000 surgical patients are suing a northern Indiana hospital after being notified that a sterilization failure could have exposed them to deadly infections.