Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) These days, more tools than ever are available to prevent the spread of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. You can apply strategies such as abstinence (not having sex), never sharing needles, and using condoms the[...]
The only way to know your HIV status is to get tested. Knowing your status gives you powerful information to keep you and your partner healthy. The following information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains the importance of getting tested for HIV. CDC recommends everyone between[...]
Contracting the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is no longer seen as a death sentence in the United States and other developed countries, which have the medical systems and other resources to treat it. Still, millions of people around the world contract HIV and die of the last stage of the[...]
Our state, Florida, has had the nation’s third-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses. More than 115,000 people in Florida lived with HIV in 2017, about 12.5 percent of all cases in the entire United States, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And if that’s not bad enough, about[...]
This month, we marked World AIDS Day in Palm Beach County — an opportunity for all of us to unite in an effort to stop new HIV infections, support those affected by HIV, and remember those who have lost their lives to HIV-related diseases. According to the Centers for Disease[...]
