Health & Wellness

People With HIV Are Living Longer—and Federal Spending Can’t Keep Up

Sam Whitehead / KFF Health News Jun 17, 2024 Aging with HIV comes with an increased risk of health complications, and many worry the U.S. health care system isn’t prepared to treat this growing population. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Opinion

How I Terrified Teenagers About AIDS in the 90s—and Why I Stopped

Jonathan Kirkpatrick / Filter Mag Aug 28, 2023 Learning to do HIV peer education in the ’90s, by unlearning what to say: confessions of a former instructor. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

LGBTQIA+

Transgender Youth Have History

Pax Attridge / History News Network Nov 22, 2022 Trans populations did not suddenly start existing en masse in the 1980s. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

White House Ends Fetal Tissue Research by Federal Scientists

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and LAURAN NEERGAARD / The Associated Press Jun 5, 2019 Abortion foes claim victory as Trump team ignores scientists' advice about its merits in studies on childhood cancers, other health woes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Over a Million Americans Have HIV, CDC Reports

Ilana Novick / Truthdig May 13, 2019 In 2017, almost 16,000 people died from complications of the virus. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Second Man Seemingly AIDS-Free After Stem Cell Transplant

CARLA K. JOHNSON / The Associated Press Mar 5, 2019 Published online Monday by the journal Nature, the unidentified patient's case will be presented at an HIV conference in Seattle. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Big Pharma, Bad Policy Are Keeping the World From Ending AIDS

By Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute Nov 28, 2018 Dec. 1 marks the 30th World AIDS Day—and despite leaps forward in medicine and awareness in affluent parts of the world, it’s still a big problem elsewhere. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

Child Brides in Lesotho Lose Their Youth and Their Future

Mamofuta Kale / Truthdig Oct 26, 2018 Forced into early marriages, teenage girls drop out of school and endure domestic violence, early pregnancy and exposure to HIV. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

ICE in the Age of Trump: Two Deportation Stories

Emily Wells / Truthdig Feb 8, 2018 Under this administration, the standards for deportation of immigrants are shifting fast. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

A Poem on Generations Witnessing Cycles of Death and Destruction (Audio)

Staff / Truthdig Feb 1, 2017 Tamiko Beyer's poem serves as a painful reminder of how "horde white-hot power" causes "rage that liquefies/ our hearts, whole communities." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Part 2: Welcome to Prison, and Rediscovering Humanity

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2017 After receiving a 30-year minimum life sentence for murder and an additional seven years for armed robbery, the author learned to use his energy in a positive way while serving time in New Jersey penitentiaries. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Rural America Is Primed for an HIV Epidemic

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2016 A staggering 188 infections in Austin, Ind. -- a rural town of only 4,300 people -- is evidence of a growing problem in counties throughout the U.S. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )