New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department said on Wednesday, attributing the difference to New York's large population of high-risk groups such as gay men and blacks.
Public Health Advocates Deliver Demand during the Democratic National Convention Calling on Senators Barack Obama and John McCain to Support a Comprehensive National AIDS Strategy
The number of Ugandan children becoming infected with HIV during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding remains high despite the government's ongoing rollout of services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT).
The story of how Nasiba, 32, and her 2-year-old son, Akram, both became infected with HIV is not the familiar one of an unfaithful husband and a mother unwittingly infecting her child.
A spate of online ads for poppers has led a longtime San Francisco activist and city health officials to address the availability of butyl and other alkyl nitrites sold in small bottles that some gay men sniff to produce a high during sex.
The New York state Medicaid director is recommending that New York City residents with HIV/AIDS and receiving Medicaid benefits should be required to use health maintenance organizations.
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