As the United States continues to confront the myriad challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been reflecting on the parallels between this public health crisis and the one that defined my formative ...

Today, we confront emerging threats from a range of respiratory viruses, insect-transmitted viruses, and viruses we have not ...

For doctors who dream of confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, ...

Federal officials have a favorite refrain about COVID-19: "We have the tools." There's just one problem: As those who have worked to end HIV for decades know, just having the tools is not enough.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. From a mostly quiet hospital, Karen Joynt-Maddox, MD, from Washington University School of Medicine ...

As we enter the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is turning to contact tracing. States and cities are gearing up to hire thousands of people to help identify and notify those who may ...

—The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest provider of care to patients infected with HIV in the U.S. and is at the forefront of preventing the disease at the national, regional, and ...

You have to be careful when comparing HIV and COVID-19 because the speed and scale of our response has been, undoubtedly, different. But there are key lessons from the way we have tackled HIV, ...

On July 3, 1981, The New York Times published its first account of the yet-unnamed AIDS epidemic. “Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often ...

In 2020, global health has gone from a fringe issue to the forefront of people’s mind, all thanks to COVID-19. The last time the entire world came close to being as focused on a pandemic threat was ...

The HIV pandemic hit the LGBTQI+ community particularly early: people who were already stigmatized. This stigmatization prevented the lessons of the HIV pandemic from being adopted by broader parts of ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / March 25, 2025 / HIV infection and lung cancer have little in common from a disease perspective, but the stigma that surrounds both can negatively impact patients ...