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Despite significant progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States, HIV prevention and treatment disparities among key populations remain a national public health concern. While new HIV diagnoses are increasing among people under age 30—in particular among racial, ethnic, and sexual minority adolescents and young adults (AYA)—dominant prevention and treatment paradigms too often […]

Covered California open enrollment begins this week and you may have questions about how recent actions by the federal government will impact your health coverage. The California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Centers today released a set of common questions and answers to help you better understand your coverage through Covered California. This guide is designed specifically to help people […]

The pill, known as PrEP, can reduce the risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDS by 90 percent. Its use has expanded sharply, but more among whites than minority groups.

Eric Russell, 24, recently joined a health support group for young Latino and black gay men, where he learned about the HIV-prevention pill known as PrEP. He resisted the medication at first, convinced he didn’t need it and fearful that taking it would stigmatize him.

Shannon Fuller of the Northern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center was interviewed by the Medical Economics magazine to discuss a paper published from the patient-centered medical homes study (Principal Investigator: Dr. Wayne Steward). The paper, published last year in the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, focused on patient attitudes about shared […]

Additionally, despite their high HIV rate, young men are much less likely to be on PrEP than their older peers.

Williams institute and Los Angeles HIV Law and Policy Project members drive passage of California Senate Bill 239

Covered California open enrollment begins today and you may have questions about how recent actions by President Trump and Congress will impact your health coverage. The California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Centers has released a set of common questions and answers to help you better understand your coverage through Covered California. This guide is designed specifically […]

These laws – which criminalize otherwise legal conduct of people living with HIV and increase criminal penalties based on a person’s HIV-positive status – were passed at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the public perceived HIV as a death sentence, and there was no effective treatment.

Republicans in Congress came close this past week to repealing the Affordable Care Act and in the process rolling back two decades of progress in the fight against HIV that could result in the deaths of thousands.