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CDC Reports Rare Breakthrough COVID Cases Among Fully Vaccinated
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Two Viruses, One Lifetime: How HIV Prepared Me for COVID-19
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United Nations Adopts New Goals to End AIDS by 2030

Only four members at the U.N. high-level meeting on AIDS voted against a declaration to reduce HIV rates and stigma.

600,000 Deaths. How Many Were Preventable?

Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the US, there have been an estimated 700,000+ deaths. A little over a year into COVID? 600,000.

Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine 90% Effective in U.S. Trial

The protein subunit vaccine provides 100% protection against moderate or severe disease, hospitalization and death.

Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in COVID Long-Haulers

Many people with long COVID are suffering from syndromes that few doctors understand or treat.
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How COVID-19 Variants Evade Immune Response

Research suggests how to develop more broadly effective therapies and vaccines.

COVID Vaccine Disparities Worsen Even as Supply Outstrips Demand

The same people who have been most vulnerable to COVID-19 are the least likely to be vaccinated.
Donald Abrams, MD, Constance Wofsy, MD, and Paul Volberding, MD

HIV at 40: Amazing Advances but Challenges Remain

Pioneering HIV doctor Paul Volberding and veteran activist Gregg Gonsalves reflect on the legacy of AIDS and its implications for COVID-19.

Watch Broadway Dancers Bare It in Times Square to Fight HIV

Dancers rehearse for the June 20 virtual HIV/AIDS fundraiser “Broadway Bares: Twerk from Home.” [VIDEOS]

Good and Bad News About Global Rates of HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STIs

2019 HIV cases were the lowest since 1990, and hepatitis B rates also fell, according to a WHO report. But most STIs peaked.

HIV Outbreak Reported in Minneapolis and Surrounding Area

The new HIV cases are linked to the opioid crisis and homelessness.
Black Lives Matter protest, San Francisco, June 3, 2020

Remembering George Floyd One Year Later

Systemic racism isn’t just about the police. We’ve seen it for decades in the HIV epidemic and now in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carmelo Morales was skeptical of the covid-19 vaccine. But seeing his colleagues and families get sick from the disease, as well as encountering a vaccine event on his walk home from work, helped push him to get his first Pfizer shot in late April.

Latinos Are the Most Eager to Get COVID Vaccine—But Face Obstacles

Some unvaccinated Hispanics are worried about missing work or concerned about having to pay for the shots, which are offered at no cost.

What If?

Jeremiah Johnson, an activist living with HIV and the HIV project director for the Treatment Action Group, urges for a renewal.

After COVID-19

Activist and singer Sherri Lewis, who is living with HIV, recounts how she and her mother confronted and overcame COVID-19.

Teens 12 to 15 Can Now Get COVID-19 Vaccine

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 100% effective in a study of adolescents; trials for younger children are now underway.

Thirty Years and Counting

Christopher Reilly is proof you can survive.
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