Living With HIV Video: A Way to Educate Patients and Provide Support

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is the largest Federal program devoted to a single disease. Every year more than half a million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States receive treatment. That is the foundation from which our Program is built. The involvement of the HIV/AIDS community continues to be central to our success over the last twenty-plus years of our Program’s history.

Federal Efforts Build Momentum To Address Health Inequities -- Guest Opinion

During the month of April -- Minority Health Month -- the Obama administration took significant steps to build momentum for efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities. But with this momentum the stakes have become higher than ever, just as fiscal and political pressures mount that could undermine progress.

At Least 600,000 Young Adults Join Parents’ Health Plans Under New Law

Hundreds of thousands of young adults are taking advantage of the health care law provision that allows people under 26 to remain on their parents' health plans, some of the nation's largest insurers are reporting. That pace appears to be faster than the government expected.

Immune-based therapies - an alternative to PrEP with HAART drugs?

The early termination of the FEM-PrEP trial was disappointing, but PrEP using antiviral drugs is not the only prevention game in town. NAPWA supports development of therapeutic vaccines and other immune-based therapies enabling people living with HIV to control their virus with less use of antiviral drugs. And the same immune-based therapies that may someday help infected people live healthy lives without drugs might, just might, also give uninfected people some protection from infection. We hosted a Community Forum on immune-based therapies in development at last summer's IAS conference in Vienna, and we are moving forward with plans to hold a second community forum on emerging but underfunded HIV therapies, focusing on potential next-generation breakthroughs, at this summer's IAS Pathogenesis Conference in Rome.

Immediate treatment for all of us? PrEP for everyone else?

Immediate treatment for all of us PLWHA?

Another National HIV Testing Day, June 27, is just around the corner! Another is a bittersweet word. We're still here, but so is the HIV epidemic, after thirty years. But at least advances in treatment are changing the terms of HIV policy debate.