HIV Rates Are Rising Across the American South in States That Didn’t Expand Medicaid
Dramatically reducing HIV infections in the next decade will prove very difficult—and may be impossible with cuts to Medicaid or the repeal of the ACA.
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Researchers Say Trump’s Pledge to ‘Defeat AIDS in America’ Is Achievable. What’s Standing in the Way?
Many of the Trump administration's own policies undermine this goal.
PS Picks: ‘Personal Shopper’ and Stories of and for the Lonely
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Latent Homophobia Looms Over Blood Donation Waiting Periods
Despite some advances in how the FDA treats donations of blood from gay men, there's a long way to go to equality.
AIDS and the House That Donald Trump Built
Some sunlight found its way between the metal police pens surrounding the new New York City AIDS Memorial,…
Malawi’s Secret Weapon Against HIV: Male Circumcision
The small African country has significantly lowered its rates of HIV/AIDS — in no small part through circumcising men and…
The Law of Positive Attraction
HIV exposure laws criminalize private lies in the name of public health, but as medical treatment improves are…
Beating AIDS With the Help of Data—and Engaging Directly With Your Care
How a multi-disciplinary approach can reduce transmission and encourage patients to engage consistently in their treatment.
‘Getting to Zero’: Are We Close to a Cure for AIDS?
San Francisco pushes early HIV treatment—with an eye toward a cure.
Love and Drugs in the Darkest Days of AIDS
We were young misfits in 1980s San Francisco, taking care of our friend, who was dying, and waiting for our own diagnoses. We were doing, selling, stealing drugs, staying as high we could. Looking back, I cringe. Yet we did the best we could.