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Heather Boerner is an award-winning journalist who specializes in storytelling on healthcare issues. She's most interested in how people choose between equally important needs.
Ample information, respectful interactions with clinicians and follow-up could be keys to supporting Black women in the South to use PrEP.
Hint: It’s not HIV-care-as-usual approaches.
Undetectable viral load improves longevity and prevents transmission of HIV.
Study will test whether providing both together will improve HIV protection for trans women.
What this means for women’s HIV acquisition rates is unclear.
Disparities extend from HIV acquisition all the way through to hospitalization and AIDS-defining illnesses.
Awareness of the HIV prevention pills don’t match their use.
Immigrants and girls had worse HIV outcomes in this study.
White men and smokers are more likely to have arterial plaque despite low cardiovascular risk scores.
The current design of the HIV care continuum is a straight line from diagnosis to an undetectable viral load.
A survey shows what many people with HIV already know: Ideas about what it’s like to live with HIV are way off base.
People who started treatment on the same day as their HIV diagnosis achieved an undetectable viral load sooner.
At the start of the “Ending the HIV Epidemic” initiative, safety-net clinics rarely offered PrEP directly.
Preterm birth and low birthweights were more common among infants born to women with HIV, but the infants were no more likely to die.
There are now more once-daily treatment options for the tiniest members of the HIV community.
Insomnia is all too common among people living with HIV.
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