SAN ANTONIO – Science has come a long way since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the U.S. 40 years ago. There are now medications taken once daily which not only prevent HIV, the virus that ...

In a session at AIDS 2024, the International AIDS Conference, global leaders and community advocates gathered to discuss why stigma and shame continue to attach themselves to an HIV diagnosis and why ...

Failing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult—if not impossible—to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers University study.

The study, which covered 40 selected districts and cities, found that discrimination, fear of exposure and social exclusion ...

Speaking at the 16th International Aids Conference in 2006, the then UNAids executive director, Peter Piot, remarked: "Since the beginning of the epidemic, stigma, discrimination and gender inequality ...

HIV stigma, rooted in the 1980s, persists, affecting care and prevention efforts despite treatment advancements. Stigma manifests as discrimination and isolation, impacting those at higher risk due to ...

GLAAD released its annual State of HIV Stigma report Thursday, which tracks knowledge, attitudes, and sentiment around HIV and HIV stigma across the U.S. Among GLAAD’s findings was that most Americans ...

We must rapidly scale the purchase and distribution of new HIV prevention, treatment and diagnostics.

“HIV lives with me — I am not living with HIV,” Saul Villalobos said. Villalobos, a Venezuelan immigrant and case manager at OASIS Florida, an HIV testing center and care facility in Pensacola, still ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first used the term “AIDS” on Sept. 24, 1982, more than a year after the first cases appeared in medical records. Those early years of the crisis were ...

The AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ‘90s was a dark time in queer history, but since then, medical advances have been made, and the stigma against HIV continues to dwindle every year. While there are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health innovation, care access barriers and prevention. Combatting HIV stigma also requires courageous and honest ...