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Study of the Day: Women's Use of Condoms Dwindles in College Shutterstock

Study of the Day: Women's Use of Condoms Dwindles in College

New research shows that undergraduates who binge drink or have lower grades are more likely to engage in unsafe sex freshman year.

Study of the Day: Older Women Need More Sex Education Too Shutterstock

Study of the Day: Older Women Need More Sex Education Too

Research shows women over 50 are concerned about STDs but feel uneasy discussing safe sex practices with their primary physicians.

Study of the Day: Saliva HIV Test as Accurate as Blood Screening Shutterstock

Study of the Day: Saliva HIV Test as Accurate as Blood Screening

New research suggests that oral HIV self-tests can serve as an effective preliminary method of diagnosis, much like home pregnancy tests.

The Story of an Influential AIDS Doctor Working in the Deep South Lawrence Hill Books

The Story of an Influential AIDS Doctor Working in the Deep South

After seeing patients with AIDS as an infectious disease specialist, Dr. Robert Ball Jr. went from conservative to white southern progressive.

Study of the Day: Antiretrovirals Radically Cut Risk of HIV Infection Reuters

Study of the Day: Antiretrovirals Radically Cut Risk of HIV Infection

The journal Science hails the trial that showed HIV drugs reduce the risk of transmission by 96 percent as the "breakthrough of the year."

Study of the Day: Drinking Alcohol Fuels the Desire for Unsafe Sex Shutterstock

Study of the Day: Drinking Alcohol Fuels the Desire for Unsafe Sex

New research shows that liquor consumption affects a person's intention to have unprotected sex, one of the leading causes of HIV infection

Community Groups Are Winning the Battle But Losing the AIDS War Shutterstock

Community Groups Are Winning the Battle But Losing the AIDS War

Community-based service organizations are saving the healthcare system billions of dollars, but they're still about to lose their funding

Before Occupy: How AIDS Activists Seized Control of the FDA in 1988 Associated Press

Before Occupy: How AIDS Activists Seized Control of the FDA in 1988

An activist recounts how ACT UP demonstrators used a mastery of media and medicine to push their careful agenda. Occupiers, take note.

Read My Lips: Reflections of an Accidental AIDS Activist Gran Fury

Read My Lips: Reflections of an Accidental AIDS Activist

Douglas Crimp had been an art critic for over a decade. But in the summer of 1987, a lethal disease was on the rise and he got swept up.

From Haring to Condom Man: Art as Weapon in the War Against AIDS Keith Haring

From Haring to Condom Man: Art as Weapon in the War Against AIDS

Historian Joan Saab discusses how clever activists used masterpieces by artists like Michelangelo and Andy Warhol for advocacy

Religion's Role in Fighting AIDS Reuters

Religion's Role in Fighting AIDS

Religious institutions can help fight against the disease, and some already are

Is There Still an AIDS Crisis in the U.S.? It Depends on Who You Are Shutterstock

Is There Still an AIDS Crisis in the U.S.? It Depends on Who You Are

There are millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS, but only a fraction -- those that can afford it -- have proper treatment

The Story of AIDS in Africa AP

The Story of AIDS in Africa

It's a tale of culture, geography, economics, colonial legacies, scientific advances, and now the idea that we have to prevent cases and treat patients one at a time

A Global Plan to End HIV Among Children and Keep Mothers Alive Shutterstock

A Global Plan to End HIV Among Children and Keep Mothers Alive

Through the collective efforts of donors, the U.S. government, and U.N. agencies, we're close to beating an epidemic that has claimed millions

'We're Going to Be in Trouble': AIDS Groups Plan for Funding Cuts Shutterstock

'We're Going to Be in Trouble': AIDS Groups Plan for Funding Cuts

For 30 years now, AIDS service organizations have played the role of advisor, caregiver, and friend, but they need to consolidate -- or die

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