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A former official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that funding cuts outlined in the proposed fiscal ...
The CDC estimates that HIV risk is highest in Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, with about 2 percent of these states’ populations believed to test HIV positive eventually.
Dr. John Brooks, former chief medical officer to the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said the economic impact of the cuts to Atlanta and the state more broadly would be noticeable since ...
Two CDC campaigns, launched in 2007 and 2011, set out to encourage testing and early HIV care on the part of African Americans and Latinos, and particularly among men who have sex with men.
The CDC currently recommends that Americans between ages 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once in their lifetime. Sullivan said there are many reasons that make testing difficult including ...
The CDC's potential 'streamlining' of programs to prevent HIV has two Southern California health agencies worried the potentially deadly virus could infect more people.
The CDC’s Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative has been working toward its goal of reducing new HIV infections by 90% by 2030. The administration now threatens to undo all of this progress.
The CDC study on the HIV clusters and the response is among 97 presentations featured this week at an Atlanta conference with EIS — better known as CDC’s “disease detectives” — who ...
The CDC’s support is especially critical in Shelby County, where the HIV rate among 20- to 24-year-olds is more than five times higher than the national rate, and new HIV cases among 15- to 19 ...
The later someone is diagnosed, the higher the chances he or she develops AIDS. In 2012, more than 13,000 people died from AIDS. CDC researchers analyzed data from the National HIV Surveillance ...
The CDC recommends PrEP for people who are at high risk of contracting HIV: those with a sexual partner who is HIV-positive, those who have had a bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI ...
(NEWSER) – Frequent testing alone can't prevent the spread of HIV, researchers stress in a CDC report on a few cases centered in the porn industry. Researchers say a 25-year-old male porn actor ...