AIDS

Feb 18, 2025
The foreign aid freeze is affecting lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment
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The U.N.’s Angeli Achrekar reports that many clinics have closed, despite exemptions in the policy. She fears mortality will surge.
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Dec 1, 2023
The finances behind preventing HIV and AIDS
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The prices for HIV-prevention medication PrEP can range from 50 cents a day to north of $18,000 annually.
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Jun 28, 2019
In time for National HIV Testing Day, progress made on prevention
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A new recommendation makes PrEP, a drug that helps prevent the spread of HIV, free for many more Americans
Feb 6, 2019
The cost of preventing the spread of HIV? Upwards of $1,600 a month
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President Trump is expected to call for an end to HIV transmission by 2030. The drug known as PrEP may be key.
Oct 16, 2018
How the deaths of gay men became a commodity
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A haunting money story from the AIDS epidemic that all started in the pages of gay men's lifestyle magazines.
Oct 16, 2018
How the deaths of gay men became a commodity
Bennett Purser/Marketplace
A haunting money story from the AIDS epidemic that all started in the pages of gay men's lifestyle magazines.
Mar 20, 2017
The first HIV/AIDS drug was fast-tracked 30 years ago. Some lament that process.
It was 30 years ago this week that the Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment for HIV/AIDS, the drug AZT. At a time when the number of AIDS-related deaths was skyrocketing, AZT was rushed into the approval process. But some of the early advocates of the drug’s fast-tracking ended up lamenting that process. […]
Nov 30, 2016
New trial for HIV/AIDS vaccine
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The first large-scale trial in seven years.
Sep 6, 2016
Complaint alleges discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients
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Large insurers discourage high-cost patients, lawsuit says.
Jan 22, 2015
Striving to get to ‘HIV zero’
Washington, D.C., and other cities are making inroads against spread of HIV/AIDS.