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January 8, 2019
BY imani

New results are raising hopes for easing one challenge of living with HIV: the need to take daily pills for life, both to ward off AIDS and to lower the…

Filed Under: Breaking News

November 19, 2018
BY imani

A promising HIV vaccine candidate demonstrated its power by neutralizing HIV strains in mice, guinea pigs and monkeys, and is almost ready for human testing. The findings were published on June 4th…

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October 19, 2018
BY imani

An HIV-negative child received a liver transplant from its HIV-positive mother and now appears to have no evidence of HIV infection apart from a very weak antibody response. The case…

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September 24, 2018
BY imani

New results are raising hopes for easing one challenge of living with HIV: the need to take daily pills for life, both to ward off HIV/AIDS and to lower the…

Filed Under: Breaking News

September 10, 2018
BY imani

More than one in nine people worldwide who might benefit from a daily pill to minimize their risk of getting HIV are now taking this medicine, a research review suggests.…

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July 19, 2018
BY imani

On July 3, 1981, this newspaper wrote about a “rare cancer” killing gay men in New York and California. Though few knew it, what followed would be a generation-defining battle:…

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June 12, 2018
BY imani

A smartphone app, developed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine to improve care for people living with HIV, as increased its users consistency in doctor visits and improved their health outcomes,…

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April 23, 2018
BY imani

You pretty much know the facts when it comes to HIV, right? Well, you might be falsely confident: A study of almost 2,000 people published in BMC Public Health found that almost half had…

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February 18, 2018
BY imani

Despite advances in the treatment and prevention of HIV, many barriers still block African Americans and people of color from getting the health care they need. When it comes to HIV, that's…

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February 18, 2018
BY imani

A man who has successfully undergone gene editing in order to combat HIV infection claims his body is now able to control the virus without the need for medication. In…

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