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The White House released the latest National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) Federal Implementation Plan the week of August 22, 2022. More federal departments and agencies participated in the national HIV response than in the past, which demonstrates federal agencies’ commitments to meet the Strategy’s goals. The plan introduces five new NHAS indicators of progress focused on quality […]


#NNHAAD 2021

National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – March 20 2022 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – #NNHAAD #StopHIVTogether National Native HIV Network – The 2021 theme is “Zero is Possible Together: Innovation + Awareness.”


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HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis, by Race and Ethnicity — United States, 2014–2016

From the CDC. Huang YA, Zhu W, Smith DK, Harris N, Hoover KW. HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis, by Race and Ethnicity — United States, 2014–2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67:1147–1150. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6741a3 Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with a daily, oral pill containing antiretroviral drugs is highly effective in preventing acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (1–4). […]


Increase in hepatitis C infections linked to worsening opioid crisis

From HIV.gov. This is only a portion of the article. View the full article here. Spike in new infections could have devastating long-term consequences New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that the recent steep increase in cases of acute hepatitis C virus infection is associated with increases in opioid […]