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Joseph Sparano, MD, leads research into HIV-related cancer

$111M Grant to Focus on HIV-Related Cancers [VIDEOS]

“People living with HIV shoulder an enormous burden of cancer,” said lead researcher Joseph Sparano, MD.
Bill Gates explains how COVID-19 disrupts health outcomes such as malaria.

How COVID-19 Set the World Back 25 Years in 25 Weeks

A Gates Foundation report tracks the pandemic’s global devastation—from health care to equality—and highlights a path forward.

“Unprecedented” Transmission of Highly Drug-Resistant HIV in France

Researchers are surprised and concerned that a strain of HIV that is so broadly resistant to treatment even has the capacity to transmit.
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National African Immigrant and Refugee HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Awareness Day 2020

NAIRHHA Day also brings focus to other epidemics fueling HIV disparities.
Organizers and speakers of NFHAAD 2020

National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2020

Join a virtual get-out-the-vote town hall and prayer services planned around NFHAAD, held the last Sunday in August.

Major Global Study of HIV’s Ties to Heart Disease Is a Data Goldmine

The REPRIEVE study, which is primarily looking at a statin’s effect on cardiovascular disease, is shedding light on many other mysteries.

The Trouble With a Low Detectable Viral Load

It’s tied to worse health outcomes in people with HIV.

Cure: Another HIV Cure?

A man with HIV is in long-term viral remission after intensified treatment.

Father and Son Arrested Over Toxic Cure for HIV and COVID-19

Miracle Mineral Solution is bleach—and people have died from drinking it.
Gilda Tachedjian, PhD, head of life sciences and principal investigator at Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia

Exploring New Ways to Prevent HIV and STIs in Women

A Campbell Foundation grant will help this scientist study lactic acid’s anti-inflammatory role in the female reproductive tract.
Jenny Holzer, “URGE AND URGE AND URGE”

This Jar of Condoms Costs Over $5,000

Artist Jenny Holzer’s latest collaboration raises funds for the New York City AIDS Memorial.

HIV-Positive Kids Weighing at Least 44 Pounds Can Take Adult Dose of Dolutegravir

Previously, kids weighing 44 to 88 pounds had to take lower doses—which are less available worldwide—and do so more than once a day.

AVAC Launches Dynamic Global PrEP Data Tool

The HIV advocacy group has been assiduously tracking PrEP data for five years.
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Overdoses Have Reduced Life Expectancy for British Columbians With HIV

As overdose death rates have risen in this population, life expectancy has increasingly narrowed.

COVID-19 Projected to Cause Surge in Deaths From HIV, TB and Malaria

Disruptions in prevention and treatment services due to the pandemic could cause a substantial increase in deaths in poorer nations.

World Hepatitis Day 2020 [VIDEOS]

290 million people have viral hepatitis and don’t know it. Raise awareness with a virtual video relay.
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