Feb. 16: Lube Alert
A forthcoming research report suggests a number of personal lubricants can damage anal tissue cells and increase HIV replication, potentially heightening the risk of contracting HIV, notably if condoms aren’t used.

Jan. 31: Fiasco in Florida
Roughly 6,500 ADAP clients in Florida are about to be cut off from their HIV medications until April. Here's how a group of advocates, a non-profit pharmacy and the pharaceutical industry banded together to prevent a catastrophe.

Dec. 2: JoAnne Keatley: Providing Transgender Resources and Combating Prejudice
As a Latina and a transgender person, JoAnne Keatley has spent much of her life trying to fight bias and discrimination and give voice to her community. Now Keatley is the director of the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco, where she works to create and expand positive and accessible health care services for the transgender community. Here Keatley tells POZ.com what drives and inspires her, and what she hopes for in the future. 

Nov. 23: PrEP Works: The Little Blue Pill That Could
The results are in—pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) works. The strategy, which involves having people take the daily HIV treatment Truvada to prevent becoming infected with HIV, cut transmission on average by up to 73 percent when taken correctly. While experts are celebrating the news, they are also cautioning that the road from research to rollout of PrEP could be long and complicated.

Nov. 11: AIDSmeds Video: Quest for a Cure
On November 3, people living with HIV and their allies gathered in West Hollywood to hear about an exciting new experiment that’s about to get under way. At the meeting, sponsored by the AIDS Policy Project, John Zaia, MD, from the City of Hope in Duarte, California, and Paula Cannon, PhD, from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, explained the potential behind their new approach to curing AIDS: genetically modifying stem cells taken from people living with both HIV and lymphoma to render their immune systems resistant to HIV. 

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