A woman who was infected with HIV in 1992 may be the first person cured of the virus without any sort of medication or any kind of transplant whatsoever, researchers reported on ... Read More
Living with HIV
Woman Tests Positive for HIV: “There Is Life after HIV, There Is Love”
Ask any single--or any divorced woman for that matter--how hard dating is, and many will share just how difficult it is to find love. Now, what if you add that you are HIV-positive ... Read More
Improving The Lives Of HIV Patients
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections held in early March in Seattle, Washington, featured over a thousand scientific research presentations primarily focused ... Read More
Why We Haven’t Cured HIV Infection: A Major Hurdle To Overcome
A little more than twenty years ago, two developments occurred around the same time that tremendously advanced our ability to treat and manage HIV infection. First, we finally had ... Read More
Ending The HIV Epidemic In The US: A View From The Trenches
In an article posted on June 10, 2019, I described a public health initiative supported by several major Health agencies here in the U.S. to dramatically reduce the number of new ... Read More
How Low Can We Go? A Clinical Trial Gives Hope For New HIV Drug Options
As most of you are aware, the treatment of HIV requires multiple drugs. Since the mid-nineties, the rule has been to use three drugs to control HIV, but sometimes ... Read More
Medical Racism And Its Impact On Health Outcomes
Some recent events have prompted us to change focus slightly. In early February 2019, it was revealed that the Democratic Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam, a board-certified ... Read More
New HIV Drugs In The Pipeline!
This is the third article in a series of updates on research coming out of the prestigious Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) held in early March 2018. ... Read More
An End To The US HIV Epidemic? For Real?
Several months ago, the President delivered the “State of the Union Address”. To be clear, I had low expectations, really low! I think I may have choked on my popcorn when I heard ... Read More
HIV And Pregnancy: A Brief History And Where We Are Today
It appears as if the first reported case of HIV being transmitted from a mother to a child was in 1985 when a Hemophiliac (person with a blood clotting disorder) infected his wife, ... Read More
The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
In the last article, I wrote about an announcement made at the 2019 State of the Union speech on a plan to end the HIV epidemic in the US. I was experiencing De Ja Vu. Something ... Read More
Medication Adherence: The Achille’s Heel of U=U
One of the highlights of 2018 that I wrote about last year was the additional research that enforced the important principle that HIV-infected individuals do not infect other ... Read More
Mixed Status Couples: Have A Healthy Relationship #Pride
The more time we put into a relationship, the more we learn about our partner. Some revelations can be as small as learning that your partner had a sixth finger as a ... Read More
Gay Marriage: A Conversation For Black America #Pride
Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a significant increase in media attention towards gay marriage. America has long debated the legal underpinnings and implications of ... Read More