The Latest Breaking News from HIV

The UK has just introduced the world’s first national programme offering a vaccine to help protect against gonorrhoea. This coincides with increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including antibiotic-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, particularly among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

Gilead stock briefly broke out Friday after the biotech company beat second-quarter forecasts amid its newest launch in HIV prevention.

Eight months into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences. USAID, which tackled HIV, TB, malaria and child malnutrition is gone. Funding has been withdrawn from GAVI, a public–private global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s…

A Hospice UK report released in 2023 found that end of life care received by trans and gender diverse people was usually not inclusive

Several vaccines for HIV have been tested in animal studies and an early safety trial in people, showing promising results in both.

Globally, an estimated 1.3 million women and girls living with HIV become pregnant every year, according to the World Health Organization

Decisions from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force impact millions of people’s access to preventative care for cancer, infectious diseases and mental health

In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GILD) Yeztugo (lenacapavir) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV in adults and adolescents weighing at least 35kg, making it the first and only twice-yearly option available in the U.S. for people who need or…

The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorizing a twice-yearly injectable drug to prevent HIV

The drug is expected to be formally approved by the European Commission this year.

My phone wouldn’t stop ringing – nurses, social workers, young mothers – all begging for help. ‘I’ve lost my job,’ ‘I have no food,’ ‘What do we do now?’ I felt helpless.