Study: PLWH Who Smoke Up to 13 Times More Likely to Die from Lung Cancer than AIDS

As HIV treatments advance, smokers living with HIV are more likely to die from lung cancer than AIDS.

A new modeling analysis looking at the risk of lung cancer death due to smoking for a person living with HIV concluded that "for people living with HIV who adhere to antiretroviral therapy (ART), smoking is a much greater threat to their health than HIV itself."

Sunday Hours: Obamacare Website To Be Shut Down For Portion of Most Weekends

ACA website to have reduced weekend hours.

The Trump administration plans to shut down the federal health insurance exchange for 12 hours during all but one Sunday in the upcoming open enrollment season.

Taraji P. Henson: Fighting the Good Fight for What Is Right

Taraji P. Henson, 2017 Black AIDS Institute Hero in the Struggle

The Black AIDS Institute's Heroes in the Struggle Gala and Award Celebration honors, in a star-studded event and photographic tribute, individuals who, over the past year, have made a heroic contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Below, one in a series profiling the 2017 honorees.

Teaching Mississippians About PrEP 1 Person at a Time

Deja Abdul-Haqq, Director, Office of Organizational Development, My Brother's Keeper

Of the 12 states where people have the highest lifetime risk of HIV infection, eight are located in the South. In fact, the South accounted for 62 percent of new diagnoses among Black Americans in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Black AIDS Institute Salutes Academy Award Best Picture-Winner Moonlight

Tarell Alvin McCraney, author of the play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue," the basis for the film "Moonlight." He, along with the film's director Barry Jenkins, received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The Black AIDS Institute congratulates Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and the cast, crew, and producers of "Moonlight" for their transformational Oscar triumph, winning Best Picture, the first film about LGBTQ issues ever to win the Oscar for Best Picture. "Moonlight", follows a Black gay boy as he finds his way and himself in a world that hates him and is literally trying to kill him. Given the backdrop of the current political, social, and cultural climate, it is the most important film of the year.