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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

3:15pm November 19, 2020

by Jason Beaubien

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.

Harvey Milk's name is seen among the engraved names of AIDS victims during a World AIDS Day commemoration event at the National AIDS Memorial Grove on Dec.1, 2015 in San Francisco. More than 700,000 people have died from AIDS in the U.S.

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

4:07pm August 03, 2020

by Lesley McClurg

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.

Writer and activist Larry Kramer, here in 1989, was an unapologetically loud and irrepressible voice in the fight against AIDS.

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Opinion: Larry Kramer, A Remembrance Of A Fierce AIDS Activist

8:00am May 30, 2020

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon remembers AIDS activist Larry Kramer who died this week. He was 84.

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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'

5:33pm April 16, 2020

by Dave Davies

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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Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, by Paul Lisicky

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

9:28am March 17, 2020

by Martha Anne Toll

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.

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.

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

9:42am February 16, 2020

by Laura Ungar

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.

Positive HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) blood test results, computer illustration.

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

5:00am January 22, 2020

by Paige Pfleger

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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From left: Sekou Sheriff, of Barkedu village in Liberia, whose parents died at 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 a video on the et

Reporters Pick Their Favorite Global Stories Of The Decade

2:26pm December 31, 2019

by Marc Silver

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.

Truvada is one of two HIV prevention drugs that will be available for free to qualified individuals.

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

12:13pm December 04, 2019

by Carmen Heredia Rodriguez

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.

Larry Scott-Walker and Daniel Driffin, two of Thrive SS' co-founders, at this year's gay pride parade in Atlanta.

Health & Safety

Brunch, Margaritas And Good Advice: How Peer Support Helps Those Living With HIV

9:33am December 04, 2019

by Keren Landman

Thrive SS, an HIV support program by and for black men, credits its popularity to its grassroots approach. But the model, which focuses on forming a social networks, misses out on federal funding.