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A former official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that funding cuts outlined in the proposed fiscal ...
C ongress just passed a sweeping bill that includes changes to Medicaid expected to cut millions of people with low incomes ...
In a sweeping national overhaul of HIV prevention funding, the CDC chose to bypass local and statewide community organizations like AVOL Kentucky.
HIV cases have been on the decline in recent years, largely driven by fewer cases among young people, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found. Estimated yearly ...
The CDC’s Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative has been working toward its goal of reducing new HIV infections by 90% by 2030. The administration now threatens to undo all of this progress.
In 2021, the U.S. had about 32,100 total new HIV infections, about 12% less than the 36,500 total cases in 2017. That year, teens and young adults ages 13 to 24 had about 6,100 new cases, down ...
Two CDC campaigns, launched in 2007 and 2011, set out to encourage testing and early HIV care on the part of African Americans and Latinos, and particularly among men who have sex with men.
COVID paused prevention efforts, which helped fuel the rise in new infections. Now federal funding cuts threaten to disrupt ...
The CDC currently recommends that Americans between ages 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once in their lifetime. Sullivan said there are many reasons that make testing difficult including ...
Meanwhile, 62% Black and 67% of Latino men with HIV were virally suppressed in 2019, compared with 74% of white men. Viral suppression is defined by the CDC as having less than 200 copies of HIV ...
The later someone is diagnosed, the higher the chances he or she develops AIDS. In 2012, more than 13,000 people died from AIDS. CDC researchers analyzed data from the National HIV Surveillance ...