KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

Trump's foreign aid freeze is causing chaos in a system that, for over 20 years, has kept millions of people alive.

In the series, five members from the Los Angeles' Latino community talk candidly about receiving their HIV-positive diagnoses ...

Human immunodeficiency virus ... HIV is a manageable chronic condition. With treatment, people living with HIV can have long and healthy lives. However, if left untreated, it can cause a weakened ...

This will cost lives if the American government doesn’t change its mind and maintain its leadership,” the UNAIDS executive ...

These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into ...

Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. But new research is promising.HIV is "like a time bomb," said James Riley, a microbiologist at University of Pennsylvania, US. Scott Kitchen, an expert in ...

But the coronavirus causes COVID, while the influenza virus causes the flu. COVID also spreads faster than the flu and remains contagious for longer periods. Both illnesses cause symptoms such ...

Claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause AIDS or contain HIV are false and misleading. These vaccines are safe, even for people living with HIV. The next time you hear such a claim, question its source ...

Health Minister Dr Atonio Lalabalavu has declared an outbreak of HIV cases in the country. He says between January and September 2024 Fiji recorded 1093 cases. He revealed the figures during the ...

So you’re right to wonder whether we’ve squashed AIDS, at least to the point where people don’t have to worry about it. HIV is a particularly tricky virus. When it infects a person ...

While the medications used in PrEP are also used in HIV treatment, they are not enough to suppress the virus. If PrEP is given to someone who has HIV, the virus may replicate and develop resistance to ...