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People who have lived with HIV/AIDS for 25 years or more are battle-scarred and full of survival savvy.
People with HIV/AIDS increasingly face mixed-up meds, delayed deliveries, spoiled shipments and privacy concerns.
When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1992 at the age of 22, I expected to die before 30. Gray hairs, and all that go with them, were things I neve...
In the essay “The Sound of Stigma,” Mark S. King reflects on why stigma persists among gay men.
As a longtime leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Paul Kawata wants to be here for the end of the epidemic.
Two gorgeous art books revisit a pre-AIDS Fire Island.
Gay groups pledge to fight the virus.
A youth group gives HIV test results to teens in public.
Dan Savage, sex advice columnist and cofounder of the “It Gets Better” campaign, offers an opinion on PrEP and PEP.
These stories recount life in the presence of HIV.
If you think you’ve been hearing the phrase bareback—slang for condomless anal sex—during TV commercial breaks, you’re not going c...
San Francisco’s law enforcement agencies will no longer use possession of condoms as physical evidence when prosecuting sex workers
With the Kinsey Reporter app, you can document each time you partake in some hanky-panky or witness someone else getting frisky in public.
In this edited excerpt from Rae Lewis-Thornton’s blog post, she deals with HIV a bead at a time.
Untangling the Intersection of HIV & Trauma: Why It Matters and What We Can Do
Clinicians who boast better interpersonal skills are more likely to keep their HIV patients retained in care.
Researchers have had early success with a method that might one day thwart the powerful blood-brain barrier and effectively deliver antiretrov...
Scientists have identified the precise atomic structure of the HIV capsid, which is the container of genes the virus inserts into human immune...
New York City caseworkers successfully linked half of those who had been categorized as “lost to follow-up” between 2008 and 2010.
The HIV antiretrovirals Viread (tenofovir) and Emtriva (emtricitabine), which are typically combined as Truvada, can suppress hepatitis B viru...
A reformulated vaginal microbicide gel, originally designed to prevent HIV transmission in women, has proved safe and well-tolerated in HIV-ne...
Synthetic anti-inflammatory compounds derived from cannabinoids, the primary active ingredient in marijuana, appear to show potential to fight...
Word shot through numerous news outlets around the globe.
A major trial has closed down after the experimental vaccine failed both to prevent HIV transmission and to reduce viral load in those who con...
Let’s face it—we’re all growing older. But thanks to advances in treatment, people with HIV are living longer than ever.
Reverend Charles Grindle works as the director of music and choir for two Unitarian Universalist churches in southern Maine. He’s also a poet,...
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