Due to squeezed budgets, some states have been cutting back on HIV/AIDS drug programs, increasing the numbers of patients waiting to get drug treatment.
To mark World AIDS Day, the UW’s Dr. James Kublin, executive director of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, would like to debunk the top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research.
Federal funding for medical research, disease prevention and a host of public health initiatives could be sharply reduced if the congressional super committee fails to agree on a deficit-reduction package, triggering automatic cuts.
The HIV infection rate in the U.S. remains steady but there’s been a big jump in infections among young HIV-infected African American men who have sex with men.
Take one pill a day can more than halve the risk that an uninfected partner will contract HIV from an infected sexual partner, a University of Washington study has found.
Cancer’s impact on the developing world goes largely unrecognized and unaddressed, panelists said at a Seattle World Affairs Council event held Wednesday night at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the first report of the disease that became known as HIV/AIDs Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Jeffrey Crowley and Director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Dr. Carl Dieffenbach took questions about the epidemic.
AIDS Statistics:
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide: 33.3 million
Number who die each year: 1.8 million
Number infected each day: 7,000
Selinah, who has AIDS, agreed to be filmed everyday for 90 days so that her story might help others.
AIDS programs now exist as a fractured web of resources ranging from community-based clinics that offer free condoms to subsidized health services to federal agencies that provide massive funding programs for treatment and prevention.
One out of five people in the U.S. infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, doesn’t know it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once as part of their routine health care. People [...]
A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that Americans’ concern about the threat of HIV/AIDS has dropped sharply in recent years with just 6 percent of adults surveyed now naming HIV/AIDS as the most urgent health problem facing the country, down for 44 percent in 1995. The drop comes at the same time [...]
In support of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the Snohomish Health District will offer free HIV testing to Black Americans who might be at risk of HIV infection. These would include individuals who might have had unprotected sex or have injected drugs and shared their injection equipment. Testing will include a private counseling session. Testing [...]
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