HIV/AIDS

African-American men who have sex with men face a high risk of becoming infected with HIV.

The AIDS Crisis Hasn't Ended In The Black And Latino Communities

2:16pm February 25, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

HIV rates in the U.S. have been dropping for about a decade. But African-American and Latino men who have sex with men still face a very high risk of becoming infected. Stigma is one big reason.

GHD Is Not An AFZ. HTH You Understand What They Mean!

4:00pm January 02, 2016

by Marc Silver

Translation: Global Health and Development is not an acronym-free zone. Hope this helps you make sense of the alphabet soup of acronyms.

Gay and bisexual men were banned from donating blood over concern that HIV could contaminate the blood supply.

FDA Lifts Ban On Blood Donations By Gay And Bisexual Men

8:22pm December 21, 2015

by Rob Stein

For three decades, men who have sex with men were barred from ever donating blood. A new policy will allow gay and bisexual men to donate, but only if they've been celibate for at least a year.

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As HIV Diagnoses Drop, The South Lags Behind

3:02pm December 08, 2015

by Sean Bueter

Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show new cases of HIV infection have dropped by almost 20 percent in the past decade.

Eduardo Gonzalez is HIV positive. His mother died of AIDS; his father, who's HIV positive, is in jail. The boy lives at Eunime, a Tijuana facility for children whose parents have faced AIDS in their family and who may themselves be infected.

Health & Safety

These Are The Faces Of People Facing HIV/AIDS: #WorldAidsDay

2:40pm December 01, 2015

by Jasmine Garsd

They are children, sex workers, drug users who live in fear of HIV. The portraits and stories are featured in a new book set in Tijuana: "Tomorrow Is A Long Time."

Scaring People Can Make Them Healthier, But It Isn't Always The Way To Go

7:35pm November 02, 2015

by Lynne Shallcross

Fear campaigns can motivate people to quit smoking or eat less. But fearmongering can go too far. When is scaring for health's sake acceptable, and when is it distasteful?

A nurse organizes the files of deceased patients at a TB hospital in Togliatti, Russia. Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is a huge problem in the former Soviet Union.

TB Is Now The Top Infectious Killer (Even Though Deaths Are Down)

5:33pm October 28, 2015

by Jason Beaubien

With 1.5 million deaths a year, tuberculosis has passed HIV/AIDS.

A mother gets antiretroviral drugs at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa in May 2012.

A Milestone In The Campaign To Reduce The Number Of Deaths From AIDS

3:18pm October 01, 2015

by Tim Fitzsimons

The World Health Organization has just recommended that all HIV positive people take antiretroviral medications. If that guideline is enforced, it could help stop the spread of HIV worldwide.

Brian Bwembya Kasoka (also known as B Flow) sings and raps about women's issues.

Why The Zambian Hip-Hopper 'B Flow' Changed His Tune

1:09pm August 07, 2015

by Ina Yang

In his first two albums, the singer/rapper made music for lovers. Then came album No. 3: Voiceless Women.

Ricardo "Cobe" Williams, wearing the cap, served time for attempted murder before joining CeaseFire as a "violence interrupter." Above, he talks with Lil Mikey in a scene from the documentary The Interrupters. Lil Mikey, who'd also been in prison, went on

You Can Stop Gun Violence The Same Way You Stop AIDS Or TB

9:25am August 07, 2015

by Amy Costello

Epidemiologist Gary Slutkin has taken the lessons he's learned fighting TB and HIV/AIDS and applied them to stop the spread of gun violence. Because like those diseases, violence is contagious.