“Most people who get infected don’t even know. It’s only in hindsight they recognize the symptoms,” says Michael Horberg, M.D., director of HIV/AIDS for Kaiser Permanente. During the first few weeks ...

Of the nearly 41 million people living with HIV on the planet, more than half (53 percent) are women and girls, according to UNAIDS. In 2024, women and girls accounted for 45 percent of all new HIV ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Masonia Traylor folded into a ball in the corner of the patient room. "No," the 23-year-old screamed, over and over again. She was ...

Beginning with the first wave of diagnoses among gay men in the early 1980s, the notion of HIV/AIDS as a “gay disease” — and one that primarily impacts gay men — has, unfortunately, persisted in the ...

Despite advances in HIV prevention, thousands of new cases occur annually, with Black communities in the South—especially women—often overlooked. Despite advances in treatment and prevention since the ...

Less testing means fewer diagnoses, which means reduced treatment of this chronic disease. The UK-based charity’s 'Not PrEPared' report uncovered that no local authority surveyed had more than five ...

Women who are using heroin and were recently incarcerated had increased stimulant use, which is associated with adverse outcomes in HIV. Drug-related offenses are a primary reason for incarceration ...

Limited healthcare access and sociostructural factors were stronger predictors of HIV than behavioral risk factors among Black women in the southern United States, based on modeling data from more ...

“I felt like I was a lesser person. I felt like I was dirty. I felt like I deserved it somehow.” Victoria Roscow, 30 and from Manchester, UK, learned of her positive HIV status three years ago while ...