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Shots - Health News
A man uses a safe injection site in New York City in January. A bill in California would allow pilot sites in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles.

California debates opening supervised sites for people to use drugs

May 23, 2022
Advocates of the proposal say it would prevent overdoses, slow the spread of HIV and inspire drug users to seek help, while proponents say safe injection sites would create an "open drug scene."
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Shots - Health News
There are parallels between COVID and HIV. Despite effective treatment and prevention tools, preventable deaths continue because of difficulties reaching out to and educating people about the tools. And even as the country seems determined to move on fro

Despite effective treatments, HIV drags on. Experts warn COVID may face the same fate

Apr 19, 2022
HIV remains a problem in the U.S. because people don't use life-saving prevention and treatments. COVID is heading down the same path. Here are insights from people fighting on the frontlines of HIV.
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Goats and Soda
A colorized electron microscope image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a single human immunodeficiency virus budding from a human immune cell.

Discovery of HIV variant shows virus can evolve to be more severe — and contagious

Feb 04, 2022
Findings from a new study help answer questions about why some people get more severe and transmissible HIV than others — and serve as a reminder that viruses don't always weaken over time.
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A bag of newly donated blood sits on top of a storage box aboard a OneBlood blood donation bus
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Blood shortage inspires call to change gay blood donor restrictions

Feb 01, 2022

Earlier this month, the American Red Cross said it’s facing the worst blood shortage in almost a decade.

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Medical Treatments
Apretude, a new drug approved by the FDA this week, is an injection that has proven to be significantly more effective at reducing the risk of sexually-acquired HIV.

A new injection to prevent HIV, rather than pills, is a game-changer, scientists say

Dec 23, 2021
The Food and Drug Administration this week approved an injectable drug that helps prevent the spread of HIV. It only has to be taken once every eight weeks, compared to a daily oral pill.
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Goats and Soda
Here's a computer generated image of the omicron variant of the coronavirus — also known as B.1.1.529. Reported in South Africa on Nov. 24, this variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning.

The mystery of where omicron came from — and why it matters

Dec 01, 2021
How did this new strain of the novel coronavirus evolve? Researchers are investigating various possibilities. One leading theory involves ... just one person.
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Goats and Soda
It seemed as if the 2005 album by Kenneth Kaunda, <em>We Shall Fight HIV/AIDS, </em>had vanished. But then ... it was found! Here's what could be the sole surviving copy, now being remastered for re-release this year.

They Found It! The Long-Lost Album By Zambia's President: 'We Shall Fight HIV/AIDS'

Sep 26, 2021
Kenneth Kaunda spoke out about HIV when African leaders would not even acknowledge its existence. He sang about it, too, in a 2005 album that made a splash, then vanished. And so a search began.
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Goats and Soda
A meeting of the table banking group at the home of a member. The photo is from 2019, when No Sex for Fish (and the village) were thriving.

Whatever Happened To ... The Women Who Boldly Declared: 'No Sex For Fish'?

Sep 19, 2021
Women in a Kenyan village had a radical idea to stop the practice of trading sex for fish to sell: What if they owned their own boats? They had great success. Then came a series of terrible setbacks.
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Health
Tori Cooper is the first Black transgender woman appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

1st Black Trans Woman On Presidential HIV/AIDS Panel Seeks To Focus On Equality

Aug 21, 2021
As the first Black transgender woman to serve in this capacity, Tori Cooper says she is eager to advocate on behalf of all transgender and non-binary people living with HIV.
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Shots - Health News
Kelly Hans holds a box of Narcan nasal spray at the county's One-Stop Shop in Austin.

Indiana Needle Exchange That Helped Contain An HIV Outbreak May Be Forced To Close

Jun 01, 2021
In rural Scott County, Ind., hundreds of people got HIV from sharing dirty needles. Now the syringe exchange widely credited with containing the outbreak is under political pressure to shut down.
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Shots - Health News
Brooke Parker, an organizer with the group Solutions Oriented Addiction Response, displays an HIV testing kit in Charleston, W.Va., in March. Outbreaks of HIV/AIDS are expected to rise as resources have been redirected to the fight against COVID-19 — d

Strides Against HIV/AIDS In The U.S. Falter As Resources Diverted To Fight COVID-19

Apr 21, 2021
Experts fear steep declines in testing and diagnoses mean more people will contract HIV and die of AIDS. The problem is particularly acute in the South, the epicenter of the nation's HIV crisis.
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Shots - Health News
Syphilis cases in California have contributed to soaring national caseloads of sexually transmitted diseases. Experts point to the advent of dating apps, less condom use and an increase in meth.

Once On The Brink Of Eradication, Syphilis Is Raging Again

Apr 14, 2021
Syphilis cases in California have contributed to soaring national caseloads of sexually transmitted diseases. Experts point to the advent of dating apps, decreased condom use and an increase in meth.
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Goats and Soda
As a young woman, pregnant and HIV-positive, Maurine Murenga did not have easy access to drugs that could save her life. Today she is an activist for equitable health-care. The global distribution of coronavirus vaccines is an issue of concern.

History Repeats Itself: COVID-19 Vaccine Inequities Echo HIV Crisis

Feb 23, 2021
People were dying of a disease that could be treated — but in poor countries, they did not have access to medicines that could help. That was the story of HIV — and now of COVID-19.
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Shots - Health News
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says President Biden told him from the outset: "We're going to make some mistakes along the way. We're going to stumble a bit. And when that happens, we're not going to blame anybody. We're just going to fix it

Dr. Fauci On Vaccinations And Biden's 'Refreshing' Approach To COVID-19

Feb 04, 2021
The administration is in its early days, but the infectious disease expert says he's encouraged by the new president's attitude about the pandemic. Science, Fauci says, is "going to rule."
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Goats and Soda

Global Causes Of Death: Significant Shifts From 2000 To 2019

Dec 11, 2020
The No. 1 and 2 causes of death remain the same, but there have been a number of notable changes. And now there's a new disease to assess on the global landscape: COVID-19.
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Newscast headlines

SNHD Offers At-Home Test Kits For Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Dec 02, 2020

The Southern Nevada Health District has started providing at-home test kits for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

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Civil Rights Groups Look To Modernize Nevada's HIV Laws

Dec 01, 2020

Today is World AIDS Day.  

An international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and remembering those who have died from the disease.  

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Goats and Soda
A woman receives medication at a clinic offering antiretroviral drugs for HIV patients in Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa.

Long-Lasting Anti-AIDS Meds Eliminate 'Psychic Toll' Of Daily Pill

Nov 19, 2020
The drugs only need to be taken a few times a year — and may soon be available in many parts of the world. Patients say they are more convenient and less stigmatizing.
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The Coronavirus Crisis

'They Know What A Pandemic Is': HIV Survivors See Similarities To AIDS Epidemic

Aug 03, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic feels eerily familiar to people who faced the AIDS crisis. It triggers memories of confusion over how the disease is transmitted and huge numbers of people dying quickly.
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Shots - Health News
In 1989, Fauci and then-U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan (right) announced results of studies showing that the antiviral drug AZT had delayed the onset of disease in some people with HIV.

Long Before COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci 'Changed Medicine In America Forever'

Apr 16, 2020
New Yorker writer Michael Specter covered Fauci's early work in the AIDS epidemic. "He's always taken an open-minded approach to the problems," Specter says of the infectious-disease expert.
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Book Reviews
<em>Later: My Life at the Edge of the World,</em> by Paul Lisicky

'Later' Takes Us To 1990s Provincetown, As Hope For AIDS Treatment Rises

Mar 17, 2020
As we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, Paul Lisicky's memoir is deeply affecting; we can recall the terror and frustration when no treatment or prevention was available for AIDS and HIV.
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Shots - Health News
Ethan Howard was among 235 people in the southern Indiana community of Austin, Ind., to be infected with HIV in an outbreak that hit in 2015. It was fueled by injection drug use.

5 Years After Indiana's Historic HIV Outbreak, Many Rural Places Remain At Risk

Feb 16, 2020
Fewer than a third of the 220 counties deemed by the federal government as vulnerable to similar outbreaks have active syringe exchange programs which can stop the spread of the infection.
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National

Some Push To Change State Laws That Require HIV Disclosure To Sexual Partners

Jan 22, 2020
In more than 30 states, it is illegal for someone with HIV to have sex without first disclosing their status. Some are now trying to change that, arguing that those laws endanger public health.
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Goats and Soda
From left: Sekou Sheriff, of Barkedu village in Liberia, whose parents died at<strong> </strong>an Ebola treatment center; a polio vaccination booth in Pakistan; a schoolgirl in Ethiopia examines underwear with a pocket for a menstrual pad; an image from

Reporters Pick Their Favorite Global Stories Of The Decade

Dec 31, 2019
The topics range from a ticking time bomb in the Arctic to the art of taking selfies in an ethical way. Here are the stories selected by our contributors.
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Shots - Health News
Truvada is one of two HIV prevention drugs that will be available for free to qualified individuals.

HIV Prevention Drugs Are Available For Free: How Do You Get Them?

Dec 04, 2019
For people at high risk of HIV, taking a daily dose of a prevention drug is essential. But many can't afford it. A new federal program makes the drugs available for free.

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