As we enter the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is turning to contact tracing. States and cities are gearing up to hire thousands of people to help identify and notify those who may ...

In 2020, global health has gone from a fringe issue to the forefront of people’s mind, all thanks to COVID-19. The last time the entire world came close to being as focused on a pandemic threat was ...

Federal officials have a favorite refrain about COVID-19: "We have the tools." There's just one problem: As those who have worked to end HIV for decades know, just having the tools is not enough.

You have to be careful when comparing HIV and COVID-19 because the speed and scale of our response has been, undoubtedly, different. But there are key lessons from the way we have tackled HIV, ...

Infectious disease expert Dave Wessner reports from the 24 th International AIDS Conference, where researchers shared ways that Covid vaccine development might help the development of a vaccine for ...

—The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest provider of care to patients infected with HIV in the U.S. and is at the forefront of preventing the disease at the national, regional, and ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. From a mostly quiet hospital, Karen Joynt-Maddox, MD, from Washington University School of Medicine ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF, the world’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, calls on world and public health leaders to apply lessons learned from HIV/AIDS—‘the other pandemic’—to the ...

But a new commentary by two leading HIV experts at Johns Hopkins argues that despite its disappointing outcome, the Mississippi case and two other recent HIV "rebounds" in adults, have yielded ...

Three lessons learned from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic were published by an international group of public health researchers in April 2020 in response to the coronavirus disease ...

Laws that criminalize certain behaviors on the basis of the person’s HIV status have long been challenged as ineffective prevention measures that harm public health. They are nevertheless widespread: ...

The news in July, 2014 that HIV had returned in a Mississippi toddler after a two-year treatment-free remission dashed the hopes of clinicians, HIV researchers and the public at large tantalized by ...