HIV/AIDS Archives

10.03.2025 Demetre C. Daskalakis headshot

Health Equity

Choosing Science Over Silence

Demetre C. Daskalakis reflects on his recent resignation from the CDC, the political moment, and the next generation of public health leaders.

Guest Author Nicholas Diamond

10.01.2025 young Black man facing away from camera at a doctor's visit. cancer screening concept

Missed Opportunities: Gaps in Cancer Screening Among Men Living with HIV

For men in the South living with HIV, seeking anal cancer screening is deeply inequitable, with age and partner gender playing key roles.

Fellow Bernadette Carter-Salmond

09.05.2025 spilled bottle of PrEP pills on blue background

Sexual & Reproductive Health

More Young Adults Try PrEP, Fewer Stick With It

Only 36% of people who could benefit from PrEP continually use it, and rates are especially low among the youngest adults.

Fellow Rowena Lindsay

05.28.2025 portrait of a young man scrolling through his phone with neon ultraviolet studio background

Mobile Apps to Overcome Sexual Health Stigma

Health apps offer confidential care, making them effective outlets for promoting HIV testing and PrEP initiation among sexual minority men.

Fellow Mallika Chimpiri

04.20.2023

The Unsung Intersection of Ballroom and Public Health

PHPod sat down with Jennifer Barnes-Balenciaga, director of the Crystal LaBeija Organizing Fellowship and Commissioner for Gender Equity in New York City, to discuss her work with health policy and the ballroom community.

Fellows Connor McCombs, Bethany Hallenborg

02.16.2023 a graph of different colored circles

Mpox and HIV

Most Mpox cases occur among Black and Latino men who have sex with men, and 80% of MSM of color with confirmed Mpox are also HIV positive.

Fellow Connor McCombs

12.01.2022 Hands holding red ribbon

Know Your Status

Focus group participants reported stigmatizing behavior about being tested for HIV, and among health care providers when seeking HIV testing.

Fellow Connor McCombs

11.22.2022 Syringes on blue background

Syringe Programs Reduce Harm in Rural Kentucky

Syringe exchange programs can reduce new infectious disease diagnoses in rural areas, researchers determined from Kentucky Medicaid data.

Guest Authors Matthew Walton, Kailyn Conner, Cameron Bushling, Angela Taylor

09.14.2022 a graph of a number of patients

PrEP’d for COVID

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) utilization dropped off substantially after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.

Fellow Connor McCombs

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