HIV

Health and Human Services removed HIV from a list of communicable diseases that bar immigrants from entry into the United States in 2010.

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.

As news of a second patient entering remission makes headlines, we take a look back at the first time doctors vanquished the virus.

Many of the Trump administration's own policies undermine this goal.

A Chinese scientist who engineered the first gene-edited babies may now face serious charges for fraudulent practices.

After decades of disappointment, cures to once-incurable diseases seem within reach.

Can the American Psychological Association's stand against HIV criminalization laws convince state policymakers that transmitting the virus should not be a crime?

A new study suggests HIV infections increase in years before wars begin.

How a multi-disciplinary approach can reduce transmission and encourage patients to engage consistently in their treatment.

San Francisco pushes early HIV treatment—with an eye toward a cure.

New research suggests that maintaining methadone treatment in jails and prisons would save lives.

Political opposition to needle exchanges, reproductive health services, and other public health fixtures has helped create an outbreak in Scott County, Indiana.

There are a lot of similarities between the global response to the Ebola outbreak and the United Nation’s failure to quickly recognize the threat of HIV. Did we learn anything this time around?

HIV is a preventable disease, which makes the epidemic in rural Indiana all the more frustrating.

A new, large analysis of previous studies finds being in abusive relationships makes women and girls less likely to use contraception of all kinds.

Indiana has temporarily lifted a ban on needle exchanges to help combat an HIV outbreak. Why leave the ban intact at all?

A new study suggests "treatment as prevention" is a viable way to fight the virus at the population level.