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In response to a CDC call for input to evaluate the utility and burden of data collection for the National HIV Surveillance System, HIVMA and IDSA submitted comments expressing strong support for continuing data collection for NHHS.
Read the letter: bit.ly/3Ya8IiV
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New CAPC blog on 'Supporting People Aging with HIV: What Palliative Care Clinicians Need to Know' >> ow.ly/z39w50Xynys
Explore the complexities that long-term survivors of HIV face as they age and the central role that geriatrics and palliative care clinicians play in delivering support.
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In a new piece for Positively Aware, HIVMA Board members @jncherabiemd.bsky.social and Julia C. Rosebush, DO, FAAP, FPIDS, also a @pidsociety.bsky.social liaison, outline how federal funding cuts are putting PrEP access and core HIV prevention efforts at risk. #SaveHIVFunding bit.ly/4p25kBG
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HIV prevention on the brink—A call to save HIV funding
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Access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) appears to improve when Medicare beneficiaries with #HIV transition to long-term nursing homes, but nursing homes miss opportunities for initiation, as most stays without ART never had ART before admission. @DaeKimMD ja.ma/457c3CX
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Fungus exploiting slow defense! 🍄💉
Cryptococcus rapidly enters the brain but triggers delayed immune activation compared to other fungal pathogens
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Cryptococcus exploits delayed microglial activation, and microglial osteopontin/Spp1 impairs peripheral host control
Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis (CM) is a leading cause of death in HIV/AIDS. Reyes et al. found that microglial activation is markedly delayed after Cryptococcus invasion compared with Candida. Micr...
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#VitaminD & calcium supplements help improve bone density of adolescents with #HIV
Rashida Ferrand & Vicky Simms explain trial in Africa 1st to provide evidence of safe & feasible intervention which lowers fracture risk & gives lifelong benefits.
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China’s new ‘condom tax’ draws skepticism and worries over health risks www.ctvnews.ca/world/arti…
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/news…
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Concurrent combination ART+3HP improves clinical and microbiological outcomes but fails to fully restore lung CD4⁺ T-cell immunity. #IDSky
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Concurrent TB and HIV therapies control TB reactivation during co-infection but not chronic immune activation - Nature Communications
The basis for inefficient Mtb control in PLWH despite treatment is unclear. Here, the authors show that combined TB/HIV therapy in Mtb/SIV co-infected macaques reduces bacterial and viral burden and i...
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Stories are powerful. But storytelling also carries risk. The Ethical Storytelling Roadmap was developed to change that.
co-designed through panel dis & workshops w PWUD, peer workers, advocates, health & com orgs, & researchers who are working in HIV, HCV, & harm reduction
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"I had the privilege of attending the International AIDS Society 2025 Conference on #HIV Science in Kigali, Rwanda...the overall tone of the meeting was resilience in the face of adversity"
- Brian Conway, via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#IAS2025 #RethinkRebuildRise
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Opinion: Lessons in resilience in the fight against HIV
If injectable medication to prevent infection were widely available in B.C., it would make our successful prevention program even better
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NYC Communities that have the highest poverty rates (dark yellow/brown) also saw the highest rates of HIV diagnoses (dark pink). Figure from the 2024 NYC HIV Surveillance Annual Report.
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History of the HIV epidemic in New York.
Figure from the 2024 NYC HIV Surveillance Annual Report.
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Papua New Guinea grapples with HIV epidemic as it battles stigma and US aid cuts
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Papua New Guinea grapples with HIV epidemic as it battles stigma and US aid cuts
Papua New Guinea has one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the Asia-Pacific region, with many unaware they have the virus
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A memorial outside Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital honors Alberto Rangel, a 51-year-old social worker who was allegedly stabbed to death by a patient at the hospital’s HIV clinic on Dec. 6.
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Pete Hegseth & Trump beg court to let them keep kicking HIV+ soldiers out of the military www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/….
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Pete Hegseth & Trump beg court to let them keep kicking HIV+ soldiers out of the military - LGBTQ Nation
The Trump administration considers HIV-positive soldiers a burden. Those soldiers call that viewpoint outdated and discriminatory.
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The surprising reason Trump is so disturbed by people questioning his health www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/….
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The surprising reason Trump is so disturbed by people questioning his health - LGBTQ Nation
The president is following the playbook his HIV-positive mentor used decades ago.
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China condom tax risks global health crisis, experts warn
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China condom tax risks global health crisis, experts warn
The China condom tax, effective from January 2026, could reduce contraceptive use and increase STIs such as HIV and syphilis, warn health experts. The China condom tax, approved at the end of 2024 and set to take effect in January 2026, has drawn sharp criticism from public health experts. The measure removes the tax exemption […]
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The HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents is seeking new scientific/clinical members with expertise in HIV care and research, including ART, adolescents, women, co-infections, drug resistance and biostatistics.
Learn more: bit.ly/48TNrij
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The HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents With HIV is Accepting Applications for Scientific/Clinical Members
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"I'm just really grateful for my palliative care team. I feel really lucky and fortunate to have such great doctors and nurses that support me, and I'm not afraid anymore."
Watch Richard's story:
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Hear Richard's Palliative Care Story - CAPC - Patient Stories
Richard, a 74-year-old man living with HIV/AIDS for over 40 years, and a survivor of anal cancer for 33 years, has a palliative care story that he wants to share.
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Virological and Immunological Outcomes of Combined Therapeutic Interventions and Dendritic Cell Therapy in People With HIV
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Virological and Immunological Outcomes of Combined Therapeutic Interventions and Dendritic Cell Therapy in People With HIV
This proof-of-concept clinical trial using a combination of therapeutic interventions randomized among antiretrovirally suppressed individuals with HIV was
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This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC | KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/ar….
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This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC - KFF Health News
HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC ...
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Artist Zahra Baker came up in “a system of care” before the HIV/AIDS epidemic decimated communities. Baker says forming lasting relationships is crucial now more than ever. www.citybureau.org/newswi…
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Rebuilding Intergenerational Care in Chicago’s Black Queer Communities — City Bureau
Artist Zahra Baker came up in “a system of care” before the HIV/AIDS epidemic decimated communities. With health crises and cultural shifts disproportionately affecting Black, queer Chicagoans, Baker ...
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An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science.
Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.
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This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data on Trans Patients, Then Quit the CDC — Assigned
John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
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“I realized that I could do more good by spending more time with my patients than I could working for the CDC under this administration.” kffhealthnews.org/news/ar….
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This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC - KFF Health News
HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC ...
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