The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly effective HIV prevention drug that outperforms oral medications in stopping HIV transmission. Developed by Gilead Sciences, the drug ...
Dallas resident Clint Hassell comes to the Fort Worth location of the HELP Center for LGBT Health & Wellness for free PrEP services. He started taking the PrEP medicine around two years to reduce the ...
An updated Canadian guideline on HIV prevention addresses the expanding range of medications available to reduce the risk of ...
When Nicklaus Chalk started law school at the University of California, Berkeley, last fall, one of his top priorities was to take care of his health. The 24-year-old student visited a doctor to get a ...
A twice-a-year injectable drug has been shown to be 100% effective in preventing the spread of HIV, according to the first data from a clinical trial. If approved, the drug offers another preventive ...
It’s possible to produce a generic version of lenacapavir, a twice-yearly antiretroviral injection that both prevents and treats HIV, for as little as $25 per patient per year, according to a study ...
Bisexual men encounter unique sexual health risks due to their sexual relationships with both men and women. This dual-risk exposure can sometimes lead to higher rates of STIs, including HIV, herpes, ...
It’s been over a decade since the Food and Drug Administration first approved a medication to prevent HIV. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates just 30% of the 1.2 million ...
When Dr. Sharon Nachman treats teenagers or young adults, she often asks about their sexual health and whether they would consider a medication that can vastly improve the chances of avoiding an HIV ...
ATLANTA — Five years ago, the U.S. government unveiled a plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. More than 30,000 people are diagnosed with HIV every year in this country. But this is not a problem for ...
HIV rates are up in Atlanta. Activists and Georgia politicians say this doesn’t have to happen because cheap and safe medicines known as PrEP are over 99% effective at blocking the infection when ...
New Trump administration rules on foreign assistance are prohibiting U.S.-backed programs from delivering HIV prevention drugs to large swaths of the at-risk population abroad, according to what ...