Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative

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What’s happening with PrEP in Mecklenburg County?

December 17, 2019 by Yen Duong

What’s happening with PrEP in Mecklenburg County? - North Carolina Health News

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are in the middle of a two-year study to find out who is accessing PrEP in the community and barriers to access.

By Yen Duong It’s been almost a year since President Trump announced that Mecklenburg would be a target for a national initiative to eradicate new HIV diagnoses and four years since Mecklenburg County Public Health started organizing its “Getting to Zero” initiative with a similar goal. In a two-year project, researchers at the University of […]

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Dispatch from the International Conference on HIV Science: Further improvements in AIDS treatment

August 22, 2019 by Editor

Dispatch from the International Conference on HIV Science: Further improvements in AIDS treatment - North Carolina Health News

Lee Storrow, the head of the NC AIDS Action Network, went to the 2019 International Conference on HIV Science in Mexico City in July, where he also presented his own research. Today, NC Health News will be featuring a dispatch from Lee about some of the advances in HIV research and where North Carolina fits into the global fight against HIV/AIDS.

By Lee Storrow The science of HIV treatment and prevention is changing at a meteoric pace. Last month, North Carolina scientists presented leading-edge research on some of those advancements at the International Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019) in Mexico City, Mexico. The conference is the world’s largest convening focused on HIV research and its […]

Zero new HIV cases: the goal for Mecklenburg County

May 21, 2019 by Yen Duong

Zero new HIV cases: the goal for Mecklenburg County - North Carolina Health News

Mecklenburg County, with one of the highest rates of HIV in the nation, is fighting the HIV epidemic with a community plan of action.

By Yen Duong Although antiretroviral drugs mean that HIV is no longer the ‘death sentence’ it was in the 1980s, the epidemic is not over yet, as 30-year old Charlottean Colin Jack knows well. “One of my best friends died at 28, two months after his birthday,” Jack said. “I wouldn’t have thought that would […]

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Mecklenburg among top focus locations in Trump HIV plan.

February 6, 2019 by Editor

Mecklenburg among top focus locations in Trump HIV plan. - North Carolina Health News

The president’s plan to “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States” will bring targeted help to the Queen City, which has the state’s highest rates of the disease.

By Yen Duong, Rose Hoban and Taylor Knopf In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump vowed to end the transmission of HIV infections in the United States by 2030. “My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in 10 years,” Trump […]

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Dispatch from the International AIDS Conference: Hope for a Future Without AIDS

July 25, 2018 by Editor

Dispatch from the International AIDS Conference: Hope for a Future Without AIDS - North Carolina Health News

Lee Storrow, the head of the NC AIDS Action Network, is in Amsterdam for the 2018 International Conference on AIDS to present his own research. This week, NC Health News will be featuring some stories from Lee about the conference and where North Carolina fits into the global fight against HIV/AIDS.

By Lee Storrow The minute I arrived at this year’s International Conference on AIDS, I knew that this time, it was going to be different. The conference, held this year in Amsterdam, is the largest convening of any global health topic in the world. When I attended the conference in Durban, South Africa in 2016, […]

Fighting AIDS in the Deep South: Glimmers of Hope

July 10, 2017 by Pew Trusts

Fighting AIDS in the Deep South: Glimmers of Hope - North Carolina Health News

In parts of the South, public health officials say new policies and programs are providing hopeful signs in the fight against the disease.

By Teresa Wiltz Stateline Twenty years ago, Darlene Robertson moved back home to rural Louisiana to die. At the time, HIV was a death sentence, so she made her peace with it. But then something happened: Medication got better, which meant Robertson got better. “My doctor told me that I would die of old age […]

Dispatch From the International AIDS Conference: So Different, So Similar

July 20, 2016 by Editor

Dispatch From the International AIDS Conference: So Different, So Similar - North Carolina Health News

Lee Storrow, the head of the NC AIDS Action Network is in Durban, South Africa for the 2016 International Conference on AIDS to present his own research. This week, NC Health News will be featuring some stories from Lee about the conference and where North Carolina fits into the global fight against HIV/ AIDS. By […]

Celebrating a Life Lived Fully with HIV

December 1, 2015 by Editor

Celebrating a Life Lived Fully with HIV - North Carolina Health News

For Jeffery Williams-Knight, life is good. But there’s one aspect of his existence he’d like for young gay African-American men not to emulate: his HIV diagnosis. By Rose Hoban For someone who’s HIV positive, the world has changed in the past 25 years. The past few years have seen a transformation in treatment: There’s prevention […]

A ‘Watershed’ Opportunity to Save More Lives from Overdose and Infection

June 17, 2015 by Editor

A ‘Watershed’ Opportunity to Save More Lives from Overdose and Infection - North Carolina Health News

The Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference was held in Asheville last week, convening advocates working along the front lines of the opioid epidemic. By Taylor Sisk “I’m a preacher that comes from the streets, I’m a preacher that comes from crack cocaine. I’m a preacher that comes from a gun in his hand […]

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Southern States Are Now Epicenter of HIV/AIDS in the U.S.

September 11, 2014 by Editor

Southern States Are Now Epicenter of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. - North Carolina Health News

Factors that continue to drive the spread of HIV/ AIDS in Southern states include state policies around Medicaid, poverty, stigma and lack of education.

By Teresa Wiltz Stateline New Yorker Deadra Malloy was diagnosed with HIV in 1988, but she remained healthy for so long she wasn’t completely convinced she was positive. When she finally started getting sick in 2006, she decided to embrace her “ancestral roots” and accepted a job down South, where her mother was from. Malloy […]

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