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Highlighting four tools to end HIV

Unlike the uptick seen in some other cities, this one isn’t fueled by opioids.

But gay men living with untreated HIV did see higher viral loads if they also had a sexually transmitted infection, says a new study.

A recent clinical trial polled HIV-positive participants about their desire to have children.

During this period, diagnoses rose 3 percent annually among 13- to 29-year-old men who have sex with men, according to the CDC.

The conversation about HIV is changing. Here’s how.

The CDC has conducted its first-ever analysis comparing sexual risk behaviors among such subgroups of high school students.

Among a group of largely HIV-positive gay and bi men, Zepatier (grazoprevir/elbasvir) boasted a 99 percent cure rate.

The newly released PARTNER2 study documented 77,000 condomless anal sex acts between mixed-HIV-status men; Opposites Attract had 12,000.

Baby boomers still make up the largest bloc of those with the virus, but youths’ injection drug use is sending their infection rates upward.

They’re concerned about a “dramatic increase” in HIV rates among gay, bisexual and transgender Latinx.

The CDC found that Black men who have sex with men received 6 percent of tests in such settings but accounted for 36 percent of diagnoses.

According to a study of Parisian men who have sex with men, hepatitis C transmission networks include HIV-negative and -positive men.

Sixty percent of diagnoses of the STI in 2015 were among who have sex with men.

The CDC is beginning to use molecular surveillance of HIV to identify transmission clusters, which has some privacy advocates concerned.

A focus-group-based study parsed men’s attitudes about pre-exposure prophylaxis.