HIV

At the beginning of June, the Texas Department of State Health Services asked all programs funded by the CDC’s HIV Prevention and Surveillance program to pause because it hadn’t heard anything from the federal agency about whether it was going to keep paying. This week, the CDC said it will pay at least until the end of the year.

The San Antonio AIDS Foundation has scaled back free testing services due to White House-imposed cuts in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding. Free HIV testing provides early detection and reducing transmission rates. How can San Antonians continue to get tested safely and confidentially for AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases?

Silence from the CDC on HIV prevention money spurred the state to request a pause in programming.

As the new cases and related deaths fall in sub-Saharan Africa, the virus is rearing its head elsewhere. What's the cause? And the solution?

Black Efforts Against the Threat of AIDS focused its message on the Latinx community on Oct. 15, which is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day.

The antiviral drug also used to treat hepatitis B may help slow cognitive decline.

Texas has the second-highest rate of new HIV infections in the United States. Medicines like PrEP can prevent HIV, but without insurance, it's hard to find, and afford.

Republicans in Congress back substantial cuts to the budget of the CDC, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump's major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

A phase one human trial of an mRNA HIV vaccine will soon begin in San Antonio.

The program was considering a waitlist to help cut costs after it faced a $100 million budget shortfall.