Researchers at UCLA have recently announced that the first case of a woman with HIV in the U.S. has reached a state of remission. This is a ... Read More
Living with HIV
Woman Cured of HIV…After Incredible Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant!
A woman with HIV who received an umbilical cord blood transplant has become the third person in the world to be cured of the virus that ... Read More
Your Guide to HIV Medications
Back in the mid-1980s -- before doctors really knew what caused acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and had even less of an idea how ... Read More
People Living With HIV Face Higher Odds for Heart Failure
People with HIV have an added risk of heart failure, so they and their health care providers need to be alert for early signs such as ... Read More
Rae Lewis-Thornton: “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Death!”
Rae Lewis-Thornton is an Emmy award winning AIDS Activist, Reverend, blogger, author, and speaker who has been living with HIV for nearly 38 ... Read More
Nutrition Tips For Persons Living With HIV
For persons who are living with HIV, maintaining good health is paramount. Apart from sticking to their prescribed medical regimen, eating ... Read More
Will Black people ever move past HIV/AIDS stigma?
Johneri’O Scott was 24-years-old when he found out he was HIV positive. He thought it was a death sentence. “I knew nothing about it ... 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 ... 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 ... Read More
Billy Porter Reveals HIV-Positive: “The Truth Shall Set You Free”
Emmy, Grammy, and Tony-winning actor, not to mention style icon, Billy Porter just revealed that he has HIV in a new interview with The ... Read More
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 of billions, even ... Read More
First-Time Ever! Woman Cured of HIV with NO Medication or Transplant
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 ... Read More