HIV/AIDS

Donald Trump is fighting HIV by cutting funding for global AIDS initiatives

The White House's 2020 budget calls for major cuts on health funding.

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HIV transmission was going down for years. But the trend stopped.

The CDC's latest report shows that we aren't making progress against HIV transmission.

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Mike Pence’s new chief of staff wrote a ridiculously homophobic column about HIV

He denounced "homosexuals' repugnant practices of frequent anal intercourse" and "the perverted lifestyles homosexuals pursue."

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Welcome to the church of Sylvester. His gospel-tinged disco made us feel mighty real.

"I'm not a drag queen. I'm Sylvester."

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Mike Pence will never allow Trump’s HIV pledge to become reality

Does anyone really believe that the religious right is going to allow the administration to reach out to men having sex with men or talk about safer sex instead of abstinence?

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Trump will pledge an end to HIV transmission in State of the Union address

Despite his disastrous record on fighting HIV and constant attacks on LGBTQ people, Trump will pledge to end an epidemic he's ignored.

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Researchers have killed HIV infected cells. That means there could be a cure soon.

Attacking the latent HIV reservoir - copies of the virus that hide in T cells - may be the last frontier in HIV cure research.

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This man is HIV positive. And he’s almost 100.

"The Lisbon Patient" is perhaps the oldest person in the world living with HIV.

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Why do patients with HIV have higher rates of cancer?

Researchers uncovered just how two common, aggressive cancers use HIV-infected T-cells to make cancer even more aggressive.

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Trump quietly shuts down HIV cure research to appease the religious right

“This effectively stops all of our research to discover a cure for HIV,” one researcher says, after Trump "paused" his experiments in a nod to anti-abortion activists.

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