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We owe these early fighters a debt of gratitude for transforming our response to public health crises. …

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin asked for an inquiry on behalf of the Kanawha County Commission 2 months after a CDC official warned that the county's outbreak was 'the most concerning in the US.' …

Type 1 diabetes, liver disease, HIV, moderate asthma, overweight, and a number of neurologic conditions are now included, as some states proceed to open up vaccine availability to all adults. …

African Swine Fever -- ChinaChina reported an outbreak of African swine fever [ASF] in Xinjiang region, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday [24 Mar 2021]. The outbreak occurred on a farm in Yili prefecture with 466 pigs, and 280 pigs died, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement, adding that the remaining pigs had been culled. [Byline: Min Zhang and Shivani Singh] --Communicated by:ProMED [Yili (Ili), an autonomous prefecture for Kazakh people, is one of 5 autonomous…

This report describes a program that increased the number of persons with HIV infections who initiated antiretroviral therapy before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The phase 2b study lays out a path toward developing monoclonal antibody drugs for passive prevention of HIV. It also paves the way toward developing a biomarker for predicting success. …

The researchers evaluated the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) type, local immune response, and markers of the cervicovaginal microbiome on the risk of CIN 2 persistence/progression. …

This report describes screening for HIV in patients at tuberculosis clinics in Africa.

This report describes how increased linkage to care among men who have sex with men promotes viral suppression, which can prevent human immunodeficiency virus transmission.

This report describes how Zambia's Lusaka Province HIV Treatment Surge increased the number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy as well as the number of people with documented viral load suppression.

This report describes the use of spatiotemporal analysis to identify clusters of people with mumps and target public health response efforts in Chicago.

This report describes that during 2009-2017, human immunodeficiency virus testing at U.S. physician offices, community health centers, and emergency departments remained low.

Providing antiretroviral treatment to women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection before, during, and after pregnancy is critical for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and improving child survival.

This report describes clinical considerations for prescribing preexposure prophylaxis for human immunodeficiency virus prevention among adolescents.

A recent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) outbreak among people who inject drugs in Cabell County, West Virginia, underscores the importance of HIV prevention, diagnosis, and care in communities with high rates of substance use disorder.

Women at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus are eligible to use all hormonal contraceptive methods and intrauterine devices.

The Department of Defense model of human immunodeficiency virus care demonstrates that the goals of high antiretroviral therapy uptake and viral suppression can be achieved and maintained in a large health care system.

Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a single infectious disease and is especially deadly for persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Although recent trends point to modest progress towards global TB targets, more focus and commitment is needed to find, cure, and prevent TB.

Health care associated transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is rare in the United States; however, investigations of acute HIV infection in persons with recent health care exposure and no traditional risk factors should consider whether health care-associated transmission likely occurred.

When taken daily, preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces the risk of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). PrEP is an important tool for preventing HIV among persons at substantial risk for HIV infection, including female sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender women, and persons who inject drugs.

Locally tailored evidence-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention programs, especially those for blacks and African Americans in jurisdictions targeted by the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative, are critical for reducing HIV-related disparities and achieving the goals of EHE.

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is observed each year on February 7 to highlight the continuing disproportionate impact of human immuno¬deficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (AIDS) on the U.S. black or African American population.

This report says diagnoses of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-2 remain low in the United States, and the current HIV testing approach could be updated to streamline efficiencies.

This report describes that human immunodeficiency virus partner services for transgender women must address social and structural barriers unique to this population.

The risk for neural tube defects among pregnancies of women diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus is similar to that of the general U.S. population.

This report estimates the proportion of U.S. adults with human immunodeficiency virus who did not adhere to medication due to cost during May 2016-June 2017.

Since 2013, progress in reducing the number of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections has stalled at approximately 38,000 new infections occurring each year.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) case-based surveillance continuously and systematically monitors HIV-positive patients throughout their clinical care until death.

Prevention efforts need to increase PrEP use among all MSM and target eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in PrEP use.

National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is September 27, 2019.

Reducing HIV-related morbidity and mortality, and effectively eliminating HIV transmission risk, depends on use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to achieve and maintain viral load suppression (VLS)* (1,2).

During 2016, 6% of persons in the United States who received a diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had their HIV infection attributed to injection drug use (1). Injection…

In February 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed a strategic initiative to end the human immunodeficiency (HIV) epidemic in the United States by reducing new HIV infections by 90% during 2020--2030.

An analysis of national survey data found that…

National HIV Testing Day highlights the importance of testing in detecting, treating, and preventing human immunodeficiency virus infection.

A geolocation-based online human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing promotion campaign from China's largest social media platform was effective in promoting HIV testing among men who have sex with men.

From October 2016 to March 2018, both the number of persons tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the number who received a diagnosis of HIV infection using index testing increased in 20 CDC-supported countries.

Among 249 confirmed cases of hepatitis A virus infection, 4% occurred among persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection.