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C ongress just passed a sweeping bill that includes changes to Medicaid expected to cut millions of people with low incomes ...
A former official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that funding cuts outlined in the proposed fiscal ...
The Trump administration has lifted a freeze on federal funds for HIV prevention and surveillance programs, officials said, ...
Dr. John Brooks, former chief medical officer to the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said the economic impact of the cuts to Atlanta and the state more broadly would be noticeable since ...
In a sweeping national overhaul of HIV prevention funding, the CDC chose to bypass local and statewide community ...
The CDC’s Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative has been working toward its goal of reducing new HIV infections by 90% by 2030. The administration now threatens to undo all of this progress.
COVID paused prevention efforts, which helped fuel the rise in new infections. Now federal funding cuts threaten to disrupt ...
The CDC currently recommends that Americans between ages 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once in their lifetime. Sullivan said there are many reasons that make testing difficult including ...
In 2021, the U.S. had about 32,100 total new HIV infections, about 12% less than the 36,500 total cases in 2017. That year, teens and young adults ages 13 to 24 had about 6,100 new cases, down ...
Two CDC campaigns, launched in 2007 and 2011, set out to encourage testing and early HIV care on the part of African Americans and Latinos, and particularly among men who have sex with men.
The CDC’s support is especially critical in Shelby County, where the HIV rate among 20- to 24-year-olds is more than five times higher than the national rate, and new HIV cases among 15- to 19 ...
The CDC estimates that HIV risk is highest in Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, with about 2 percent of these states’ populations believed to test HIV positive eventually.