HIV infection rates may be five times higher than thought in black urban women. March 9, 2012— -- The HIV rate among black women living in some U.S. cities is the same rate as that of some ...

Dr. Robyn Neblett Fanfair, M.D., MPH and a captain in the United States Public Heath Service Commissioned Corps, was named last month after having led the department as acting director since August of ...

Pernessa C. Seele, who received her Doctor of Humane Letters in 2007, among many other honors, is the founder and CEO of The Balm in Gilead Inc., a nonprofit organization helping fight HIV/AIDS. Seele ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis University graduate student Tochcukwu Patrick decided to bring awareness to HIV/AIDS among women and girls using art and poetry. Patrick created HerHealth HIV/AIDS Awareness ...

Limited healthcare access and sociostructural factors were stronger predictors of HIV than behavioral risk factors among Black women in the southern United States, based on modeling data from more ...

In Ghana, as in many other parts of the region, statistics indicate a troubling trend: more women are infected with HIV/AIDS than men. This gender disparity is not merely a coincidence but a ...

A new study found that the HIV treatment lenacapavir (Sunlenca) was completely effective at preventing HIV infection in women. Lenacapavir is administered as a twice-a-year shot. The drugmaker, Gilead ...

KAKUMA, Kenya, Dec 1 (UNHCR) - There's not much open talk of sex among the Dinka people of Sudan. "Even when I get married, my mother won't tell me what to expect on my wedding night," says one young ...

On March 14, a diverse group of 30 or so Black women convened for an intimate and powerful gathering at Ventanas in Atlanta. The event was the latest in the Risky: A Dinner Conversation series, an ...

New research found that women in Somalia relied on television and radio to learn about HIV/AIDS. Education, residence, age, television, and radio were all found to be important factors in educating ...