HIV Prevention Has An Equity Problem. Here’s What Needs to Change

HIV Prevention Has An Equity Problem. Here’s What Needs to Change

Michael Chancley, communications director, PrEP4All, and PrEP user. AIDSVu.org: “Local Data: Louisiana.” CDC.gov: “HIV and Women: HIV Diagnoses,” “HIV Surveillance Data Tables. Table 3a,” “PrEP Effectiveness,” FDA.gov: “FDA Approves First Injectable Treatment for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis,” Dec. 20, 2021, “FDA approves second drug to prevention HIV infection as part of ongoing efforts to end the … Read more

How Black Women Have Fought the HIV Epidemic for Decades

How Black Women Have Fought the HIV Epidemic for Decades

News release, HIV.gov. Harold Phillips, director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy. Daniel Royles, PhD, assistant professor of history, Florida International University; author of To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS. CDC: “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, June 4, 2021,” “Basic Statistics,” “HIV and African American People,” “HIV and Gay … Read more

Human Trials for HIV Vaccine Created With mRNA Technology to Begin

Human Trials for HIV Vaccine Created With mRNA Technology to Begin

Sept. 2, 2021 — Over the past decade, advances in HIV treatment have yielded new drug combinations, once-daily dosing, and, most recently, the introduction of long-acting injectables for pre- and post-exposure prevention and treatment. But why has it been so difficult to make an HIV vaccine? “The difficulties of vaccine candidates that have … Read more