#Latin America

Researchers provided an initial Truvada prescription to eligible gay and bi men and trans women at their first appointment.

Researchers analyzed data from 42 HIV centers in 11 Latin American nations.

Advocates say the government hasn’t provided data on HIV-positive refugees. Here’s why they want those numbers.

San Francisco and Mexico City host competing conferences.

It’s planned by activists who cannot or will not attend the San Francisco gathering because of U.S. discriminatory policies.

Listen to personal tales from the global urban AIDS response, including reports from five U.S. cities.

The program takes place June 3 through 6 in Indianapolis, but the main sessions will be streamed live on Facebook.

“You are sending me to my death!”

The high proportion of individuals starting treatment with drug resistance already warrants changing the recommended first-line therapy.

But the median CD4 count at treatment start is below 350, which means work is needed to catch up to World Health Organization guidelines.

For the first time, more than half of people with HIV are taking meds. The analysis also shows troubling trends in the former Soviet region.

It is predicted that within a few weeks the country will face a near universal stock out of antiretroviral treatment.

UNAIDS sounds the alarm about this troubling shift in a once hopeful trend.

We already know that sexual intercourse can spread Zika virus, the mosquito-borne illness linked with serious birth defects.

Shortages threaten lack of access by the end of June 2016.

Eastern Europeans with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV have a much higher death rate than those with both diseases in other regions.