HIV

On this episode, host Dr. Joe Sirven discusses how to navigate the health care system when diagnosed with prostate cancer. Then, a look at why HIV is more prevalent in the South.

Researchers looked at 198 kidney transplants performed at hospitals across the United States. They found similar results whether the donated organ came from a person with or without the AIDS virus.

A new ad campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation aims to encourage testing and treatment in Florida and across the U.S.

Mayor Donna Deegan held a signing ceremony to join Fast-Track Cities, adding Jacksonville to the hundreds of metro areas around the world striving for "zero new HIV infections and zero HIV-related deaths."

The final results of a trial for a new HIV preventive strategy are out. Experts express enthusiasm. But activists at the 2024 AIDS conference in Munich are protesting the likely cost.

While advances are being made, progress has slowed, funding is shrinking and new infections are rising in the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America.

Fernando Hermida has had to move three times to access treatment until finding an oasis in Orlando. His story illustrates the difficulty Latino men have finding HIV care despite millions in federal dollars going annually to ending the disease.

Advances in medicine mean more people are living longer with HIV. But aging with HIV comes with increased health risks, and this growing population needs specialized care that's hard to find.

The American Academy of Pediatrics changes its policy citing drugs used to treat HIV can reduce the risk of passing the virus to infants to less than 1%. About 5,000 people who have HIV give birth in the U.S. each year.

An ugly legal battle between OASIS and AHF ─ involving a quarter-million dollars in federal funding for HIV medical care ─ is affecting hundreds of low-income patients in Northwest Florida.