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News Articles: HIV

Christopher Ervin, Maisa Standifer and Folashade Omole stand in front of the I Am MSM sign at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta

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  • Health Care

World AIDS Day: Why community researchers and advocates want to reach Black women

Almost half of new HIV infections in the United States are reported in the South, and more than 66,000 Georgians are living with the virus that causes AIDS, many of whom do not have access to health care.

December 01, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Professors Salim Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim, married for more than 40 years, are respected around the world for their research on HIV. In September they were named winners of the Lasker Award for public service in recognition for their groundbreaking medical research.

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  • Global Health

'America's Nobel' goes to a power couple who made a startling discovery about HIV

This year's Lasker Prize for public service goes to South African researchers Salim and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim. The married couple made a startling discovery about HIV — and did something about it.

October 01, 2024
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
A vial of lenacapavir. The HIV prevention drug, delivered twice yearly by injection, has shown remarkable effectiveness in quashing HIV in trials.

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  • Global Health

This preventive drug could be a 'game changer' in ending the HIV epidemic

In newly released data, lenacapavir, given via a twice-yearly injection, has shown remarkable effectiveness at eliminating HIV transmission during sexual contact. But its cost could be an issue.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • David Cox and
  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
Marc Franke, known as "the Düsseldorf patient," is one of only seven patients in the world to be cured of HIV. His treatment involved a stem cell transplant. “It was a very rocky road,” he says. “I had so many troubles.”

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  • Global Health

One of the 7 people cured of HIV tells his story. Can his cure work for others?

The "Dusseldorf patient" spoke at last week's AIDS 2024 conference in Munich. Here's what doctors did — and what they say about their ability to replicate the procedure.

July 30, 2024
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By:
  • David Cox
an image with text announcing $26 million grants

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  • Health

$5M in grants will help Atlantans with HIV/AIDS better afford housing

Two nonprofits in Georgia, AID Atlanta and Positive Impact Health Centers, each claimed $2.5 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help people living with HIV and AIDS afford housing.

July 05, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Malcolm Reid at home in Decatur, Georgia, with his dog, Sampson. Reid, who recently marked his 66th birthday and the anniversary of his HIV diagnosis, is part of a growing group of people 50 and older living with the virus.

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  • Health

People with HIV are aging, and the challenges are piling up

Advances in medicine mean more people are living longer with HIV. But aging with HIV comes with increased health risks, and this growing population needs specialized care that's hard to find.

June 17, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Whitehead

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  • Health Care

Widely available antibiotic now recommended to prevent STIs, says Atlanta-based CDC

When taken up to three days after having sex, the antibiotic doxycycline has been shown to prevent syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in about two-thirds of users. 

June 07, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
This electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows a human T cell, in blue, under attack by HIV, in yellow, the virus that causes AIDS.

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  • Health

CDC says 3 women diagnosed with HIV after receiving 'vampire facial'

Although HIV transmission from contaminated blood through unsterile injection is a well-known risk, the CDC said this is the first documentation of probable infections involving cosmetic services.

April 29, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
We asked our readers to send in their wishes for 2024, and many of you expressed a hope that humans pay attention to the health of the planet. The woman pictured above is one of the nomadic Wodaabe people — cattle herders who live mainly in Chad and Niger. Their lifestyle is affected by higher temperatures, shifting winds and changing precipitation patterns due to climate change.

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  • Opinion

Readers' wishes for 2024: TLC for Earth, an end to AIDS, more empathy, less light

As a new year dawns, we asked our readers to send us their global wishes. Here's what they're hoping for.

January 21, 2024
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By:
  • Gisele Grayson
This is the vaginal ring that releases the antiretroviral drug dapivirine to ward off HIV infection. The ring is now going into wider distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, where girls and young women age 15 to 24 accounted for more than 77% of new HIV infections in 2022, according to UNAIDS.

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  • Global Health

A vaginal ring that discreetly delivers anti-HIV drugs will reach more women

In sub-Saharan Africa, women are at high risk of contracting HIV. Some protective measures carry a stigma but this device enables them to take control without anyone knowing.

December 08, 2023
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By:
  • Susan Brink
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  • News

Georgia in Play: Celebrating Hanukkah, holiday jazz, girls lead gaming, helping homeless neighbors

This week on Georgia in Play: Thursday marked the start of Hanukkah, and host Leah Fleming asks some of the holiday's youngest observants what the celebration means to them. Plus, an award-winning jazz artist brings another holiday track for your playlist this season, while your kids might learn through video games in the classroom one day. Then, hear what your local homeless shelters may need around the holiday.

December 08, 2023
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By:
  • Leah Fleming and
  • Chase McGee

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  • Global Health

It's World AIDS Day. Make HIV testing part of everyone's annual checkup, says this AIDS researcher

The latest World AIDS Day report finds that urgent action is needed to tackle inequalities, especially in the South, which has the highest rates of new HIV infections.  

December 01, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
PEPFAR, the U.S. multibillion dollar effort to fight HIV/AIDS, funds organizations such as the Coptic hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

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  • Global Health

What's behind the debate to re-authorize PEPFAR, the widely hailed anti-HIV effort?

The program launched by President George W. Bush is credited with saving 25 million lives. Some in Congress want this year's reauthorization tied to language that PEPFAR will not "promote abortion."

September 29, 2023
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
A close up image of an HIV finger prick test

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  • Health

No insurance? Here's how to access HIV testing, treatment and support services in Georgia

A diagnosis of HIV is not a death sentence. There are resources available, including prevention strategies such as PrEP, a pre-exposure prophylaxis.

 

September 27, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
President Donald J. Trump touted his plan to end the HIV epidemic during his 2019 State of the Union Address. The effort has sent $1.7 billion mainly to southern states.

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  • Health Care

Trump launched an ambitious effort to end HIV. House Republicans want to defund it

Republicans in Congress back substantial cuts to the budget of the CDC, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump's major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

August 31, 2023
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  • Andy Miller and
  • Sam Whitehead
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