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 Prevention
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 ...
Gay Dating App Grindr Now Offers HIV Test Reminders
Grindr is hands down the world’s largest social dating app for Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer individuals. The ...
Human Clinical Trials Are Up Next for Experimental HIV Vaccine
Black people account for a higher proportion of new HIV diagnoses, those living with HIV, and those who ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Just Say “No” to HIV: Strategies for Preventing the Infection (part 2 of 3)
I frequently travel to Africa and Latin America. In tropical climates, I am at risk of getting infected ...
Just Say “No” to HIV: Strategies for Preventing the Infection (part 1 of 3)
Let’s start a discussion about HIV prevention using this real-life case. D. M. is a 27 yo African-American ...
