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How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic Diseases
Read More: How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic DiseasesBy DNA and mRNA vaccines are much better at producing T cells than are normal vaccines.NIAID/NIH via Flickr What makes nucleic acid vaccines different from traditional vaccines? Most vaccines induce antibody responses. Antibodies are the primary immune mechanism that blocks infections. As we began to study nucleic acid vaccines, we discovered that because these vaccines…
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Why Addressing Racism Against Black Women in Health Care Is Key to Ending the US HIV Epidemic
Read More: Why Addressing Racism Against Black Women in Health Care Is Key to Ending the US HIV EpidemicBy Nabila El-Bassel, Columbia University Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women. Although Black women represent only 13% of the female population, they accounted for over half of HIV diagnoses among all females in the U.S. in 2018, according to data from the U.S.…
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Access, Access to health care, Affordable care act, Health disparities, HIV, Hivaids, Lgbtq, Policy, Prevention, Preventive health
HIV Prevention Pill PrEP Is Now Free Under Most Insurance Plans – but the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Puts This Benefit at Risk
Read More: HIV Prevention Pill PrEP Is Now Free Under Most Insurance Plans – but the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Puts This Benefit at RiskDecember 1 is World AIDS Day By Paul Shafer, Boston University and Kristefer Stojanovski, Tulane University Since the start of the HIV epidemic in 1981, over 700,000 Americans have lost their lives to AIDS. Being infected used to be a death sentence. But now, 40 years later, the U.S. is on the precipice of eradicating…
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HIV, Hivaids, mental health, Self-Care, Sex, Sex & relationships, Sexual health, Sexually transmitted diseases, Stds
The Connection Between HIV and Mental Health in the Older Adult
Read More: The Connection Between HIV and Mental Health in the Older AdultMedically reviewed by Dr. Sharon D. Allison-Ottey
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It May Come as a Surprise, but Older Women Get HIV, Too
Read More: It May Come as a Surprise, but Older Women Get HIV, TooEspañol When Tracey Kelly lost 70 pounds over a six-month period, she told everyone the low carbohydrate diet she was following was the best weight-loss program she’d ever tried. But even after she went off the diet and started eating fast food and drinking beer, she kept losing weight. When she wound up in the…
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COVID-19, HIV, Hivaids, Medical tests, Prevention, Preventive health, Research, Science, Vaccinations, Vaccines
HIV/AIDS Vaccine: Why Don’t We Have One After 37 Years, When We Have Several for COVID-19 After a Few Months?
Read More: HIV/AIDS Vaccine: Why Don’t We Have One After 37 Years, When We Have Several for COVID-19 After a Few Months?By Ronald C. Desrosiers, University of Miami Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth following a highly effective, worldwide vaccination campaign. Paralytic poliomyelitis is no longer a problem in the U.S. because of development and use of effective vaccines against the poliovirus. In current times, millions of lives have been saved because…
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Is It Hemorrhoids or Something Worse?
Read More: Is It Hemorrhoids or Something Worse?Medically reviewed by Dr. Lauren R. Wilson. When Charlie’s Angels star Farrah Fawcett died of anal cancer in 2009, it put a spotlight on a disease that isn’t talked about much but has early symptoms similar to everyday hemorrhoids. Understanding the risk factors and the differences between anal cancer and hemorrhoids is critical to staying…
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Black Women Are Getting HIV at Alarming Rates
Read More: Black Women Are Getting HIV at Alarming RatesDecember 1 is #WorldAIDSDay. One year after being diagnosed with HIV, LáDeia Joyce threw a party. Family, friends and colleagues gathered for food and drink, then sat down to watch 90 Days, a short film about a young, professional heterosexual Black couple navigating one partner’s HIV-positive status. At the end of the movie, Joyce told…
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Are COVID-19 Outcomes Worse For People Living With HIV?
Read More: Are COVID-19 Outcomes Worse For People Living With HIV?So, does being HIV positive put you at increased risk for a severe COVID-19 experience? New research looked to answer this question. The post Are COVID-19 Outcomes Worse For People Living With HIV? appeared first on Women’s Health.
