HIV/AIDS

Photo of a brightly-colored building. On one side is a sign for a thrift store, and on the other is a sign for a clinic and pharmacy.

Health

At a new Austin clinic, you can get tested for HIV or thrift a new sweater

Olivia Aldridge

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's new “all-in-one” clinic, offers primary care, STI testing, case management and pharmacy services. Also on site is the Out of the Closet Thrift Store, where 96 cents of every dollar earned will go towards HIV prevention and treatment in the Austin area.

Blue Truvada pills clumped together on a counter.

Politics

Texas judge rules coverage of anti-HIV medicine violates religious freedom

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

Last year, the federal government required most insurance companies to cover the drug known as PrEP. But a group of Christian business owners claimed the mandate pushes them to “facilitate homosexual behavior.”

Josh Mica displays a bottle of his HIV treatment medication.

Health

HIV Drug Program Serving Thousands Of Low-Income Texans Will Avoid Waitlist — For Now

Sara Willa Ernst

The program was considering a waitlist to help cut costs after it faced a $100 million budget shortfall.

Dr. Lawrence Mass, who wrote the first article about AIDS in a U.S. publication, points to South Africa when reflecting on the legacy of AIDS denialism. The legacy, he says, is "the death — the preventable unnecessary deaths — of more of 330,000 people" there.

Health

Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn't New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis

Ryan Benk

It's been 40 years since the first U.S. AIDS cases were were reported, and some who experienced the early years of the crisis say the effects of denialism then have carried into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Life & Arts

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day With Dr. Laura W. Cheever

John L. Hanson Jr.

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dr. Laura W. Cheever, MD, a physician and the associate administrator…