The new federal rule threatens widespread funding, including NYC health department and community groups
Noma ‘is the quintessential neglected disease,’ striking mostly children under 6 in several African countries. There has been very little research on it.
Funding for the U.S. aid program has dropped about 30%. As one expert put it, ‘We're building up problems for the future.’
In a Q&A with Healthbeat, Perry Halkitis discusses how parallels between the AIDS epidemic and the Covid pandemic compelled him to write his latest book on the need for a public health sector that puts humans front and center.
Some countries have backup systems to keep medicines flowing. Others do not.
The $2.51 billion spending plan includes increases for early childhood initiatives and a new public health lab - but less funding to fight communicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis.
Supporters of the bill say it could expand access to PrEP and PEP, reducing racial disparities, and curb new cases.
I had lived through the transformation of HIV in the United States — from a death sentence to a manageable chronic illness. Now, I had the privilege of witnessing that transformation again, on a massive scale.
Other gaps in protection against the highly contagious disease include access to hard-to-reach clinics and ‘social determinants of vaccination.’
New York City has made incredible progress against HIV, but rising infection rates, persistent disparities, and looming federal funding cuts risk a backslide.
HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC from further harm.
The county health agency identified the first measles case Sept. 10 in the student, who had spent time on campus, at a Sweetgreen eatery at Ponce City Market, and local soccer practices and games.
Together Take Me Home, based at Emory University, delivers the tests through an easy-to-use website and integration with dating apps.
Also in the Global Health Checkup: Food poisoning in Indonesian school lunches, more on Ebola in Congo, a tiny sandfly parasite, and the odds of another pandemic.
Funding cuts sting, but groups gathered for the Saving Ourselves Symposium in Atlanta say community joy and resilience will keep them going.
Fired-then-reinstated workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worry about the future of public health amid proposed downsizing — and now a traumatic attack.
The firings came amid delays in funding for HIV initiatives to state and local health departments from the CDC. Those funds have since arrived.
While Congress fails to stave off cuts to HIV care, community leaders in Mississippi and beyond race to limit the damage.
Researchers laid off in April were putting the finishing touches on in-depth HIV surveys that guide treatment and prevention. Some staff have been reinstated, but data remains in limbo.
Advocates warn Black LGBTQ+ Georgians could lose access to a host of services and health care if the proposed legislation is enacted.