HIV/AIDS Archives

03.06.2019 a graph of different colored lines

Transgender Individuals See Improvements in HIV Outcomes

Researchers assessed the CD4 counts of cisgender and transgender people living with HIV and showed a narrowing of the gap between two populations.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

02.18.2019 White House with a red AIDS ribbon hanging on the front

Trump Policies Hinder HIV Fight

Trump’s 2019 State of the Union promise to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the US within 10 years is undermined by policies his administration has promoted.

Guest Author Sean Cahill

10.10.2018 a statue of a hand pointing at something

Health Equity

Fieldnotes, Good Guys, and the Culture of HIV Care

Conversations between patients and providers that treat patients as unique individuals can help providers develop care plans to better match their patients' lives.

Guest Authors Gemmae M. Fix, Barbara G. Bokhour

06.20.2018 a diagram of a graph

HIV from Silverware? Fork No!

Even though accurate information has been widely available for over three decades, misperceptions about HIV transmission persist.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

05.23.2018 a close-up of people connected

Sex and the City’s Network

A study of young Black MSM in Chicago examined the association between Facebook networks and awareness of PrEP, a medication which can substantially reduce the risk of acquiring HIV.

Guest Author Aditya S. Khanna

04.24.2018 a graph with orange and blue lines

Making Strides Towards Zero

San Francisco has made steady progress towards fulfilling its goals of achieving zero HIV deaths, zero new infections, and zero stigma by 2020.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

03.07.2018 Shari Rudavsky

Shari Rudavsky

PHP sat down with Shari Rudavsky, health and medicine reporter for the Indianapolis Star, where she has reported on Indiana’s important public health issues, including the recent HIV outbreak and the opioid crisis.

Guest Author Jacqueline Rocheleau

12.01.2017 Graph of reaching ART 90% coverage by 2020 under two assumptions about future HIV transmission

The End of AIDS is in the Details

The United Nations’ Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has a goal to eradicate AIDS by 2030. One of the most difficult facets of reaching the end of AIDS, they say, will be knowing when we’ve gotten there.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

04.21.2017 A blue square with stars and lines of text representing the stripes on an American Flag

Health Equity

The Politics of HIV Self-Management

The real consequences of politics: people living with HIV are uneasy about what their daily life might look like in the politics and policies of the future.

Guest Author Gemmae M. Fix

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