AIDS activists say New York lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo must invest more state funds if they are serious about the state’s goal of ending the epidemic by 2020.
Problem is, lawmakers banned state funding for the exchanges when they legalized them last year, even as Indiana’s worst-ever HIV outbreak struck in another county.
Homelessness is highly associated with HIV, with 5.3% seropositive in 1989. While this is the only domestic study, in 2010, the HIV prevalence among homeless youth in Ukraine was 18.4%. Homeless youth (HY) are likely to have psychiatric disorders, substance abuse problems (usually poly substances, including alcohol), and have homes with high levels of conflict (sometimes because parents have substance abuse, or mental health problems themselves). Many homeless youth were ejected from their home or left due to neglect or abuse. Bartering sex is a means of survival. Risk for HIV comes both from youth’s life circumstances, as well as a history of multiple behavioral risks.
Black gay and bisexual men enrolled in a program that helps them overcome personal barriers to treatment are likely to keep taking a daily anti-HIV pill, according to new research.
New government estimates break down the lifetime risk of infection by race, gender and geography.
A flexible and inexpensive ring that is inserted into the vagina, where it slowly releases an antiviral drug, helped protect African women against contracting H.I.V. from their sexual partners, researchers said Monday in reports on two major studies that included more than 4,500 women.
Teens in New York don’t need their parent’s consent before seeking treatment for most sexually transmitted diseases. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it’s time to change the law so that HIV infections are treated the same way.
Johns Hopkins said it was set to perform the first kidney and liver transplants between H.I.V.-positive donors and H.I.V.-positive patients in the United States, a development that advocates said could create a lifesaving pipeline for H.I.V. patients while shortening organ donor waiting lists for all.
According to the current issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization the highest number of new HIV cases since reporting began in the 1980s was recorded in WHO’s European Region in 2014, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe.