Health Jan 03 How to spot deceptive drug injury ads like the ones Facebook just disabled By Elizabeth C. Tippett, Jesse King, The Conversation
Health May 14 What Trump’s PrEP deal means for the spread of HIV The Trump administration’s new deal to provide uninsured Americans with free drugs to prevent HIV infection could be a promising step, but actually reaching the very people most in need -- and convincing them to take it -- will be… By Jason Kane
Health Apr 24 Why a promising new approach to HIV prevention could lose funding NIH officials have announced that after 2020, they don’t plan to fund topical HIV prevention products like douches or gels, unless they can protect the whole body, or unless early studies have shown they can substantially reduce HIV risk. By Heather Boerner
Health Dec 24 Frustrated by bureaucracy, activists led grassroots effort to get drugs to curb HIV infections Truvada was first approved for preventive use in the United States in 2012, and has been shown to significantly reduce the chance of infection. By Donato Paolo Mancini, STAT
Nation Nov 28 Watch 10:03 San Francisco bolsters anti-AIDS campaign with new funding NewsHour's John Carlos Frey reports in this updated segment on San Francisco's plan to zero out the number of new HIV infections. The city's public health officials, doctors, and activists have made huge strides battling the epidemic and are now… By PBS News Hour
Jul 30 Why the anti-HIV pill is a hard sell to the Latino community By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News In California, New York, Texas and elsewhere, health workers are trying to get more high-risk Latino men to use the drug, Truvada. The medication, which is used for “Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis” or PrEP, was approved by the FDA in 2012 for… Continue reading
Apr 12 8 things you didn’t know about Truvada By Daniel Costa-Roberts Truvada can be used for what is called "PrEP," short for "pre-exposure prophylaxis," the controversial practice of using antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infection. Continue reading
May 11 Watch A Drug to Prevent HIV’s Spread: Truvada’s Promises and Problems A Drug to Prevent HIV's Spread: Truvada's Promises and Problems… Continue watching
Nov 25 Watch Making AIDS Drugs Affordable Here and Abroad Spencer Michels profiles the company that makes the HIV medicine, and the strides to make it affordable to those in the U.S. and poorer countries. Continue watching