Why Are Blacks Suffering Disproportionately From AIDS?
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been afflicting our country for more than three decades and is a disease that ...
HIV/AIDS
What Are The Medication-Based Treatment Options For Opioid Addiction
Yesterday morning, I was seeing patients with a colleague of mine, a physician and medical director of a ...
Intravenous Drug Use of Opioids and HIV transmission: Opioids 101
Opioids are natural and synthetic derivatives of opium, a compound produced by the poppy plant. Opium and its ...
American Heart Association: The Link Between HIV & High Blood Pressure
HIV positive individuals face a range of emotions and symptoms that come with the condition. To add to ...
A Crash is Inevitable: The HIV epidemic and Drug Addiction
In the previous article, I tried to shed some light on this current “Opioid Epidemic”, the social and ...
Major Health Epidemic Spells Double-Trouble for HIV-Infected Individuals
While we have been discussing the microbiome, we have a golden opportunity to show how it can influence ...
The Intersection of Two Epidemics: Not a “Color-blind” Discussion
In the early 80’s, the medical community was stunned by a growing epidemic of severe complications of immune ...
HIV and The Gut Microbiome: Prebiotics and Probiotics
In the previous article, I introduced the microbiome. To review, recall that our bodies are essentially a reservoir ...
Importance of the Microbiome in HIV Prevention and HIV Disease (Pt 1)
So you’ve just finished a hot, relaxing shower with your favorite shower gel and then you brush your ...
New treatment options for HIV patients new and old.
Genes (made of DNA) are like instruction manuals for how to make the proteins that build our bodies ...
HIV Tests: 4 Facts You NEED To Know
Twenty years ago, when I would encourage many black men and women to get tested for HIV, the ...
Living Healthy With HIV
More and more individuals stricken with HIV – the human immunodeficiency virus – are living longer and stronger ...
I want the protection from PrEP but I hate taking pills!! (part 3 of 3)
In the two previous articles, we introduced PrEP as a strategy to protect individuals from getting infected with ...
Prevention Starts with Me: 13th Annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 10th marks the 13th observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day! The U.S. Department of ...
