Orange County

HIV remains a growing problem for Florida, but survivors are seeking to erase the stigma surrounding the disease celebrate the lives they live and honor those who died in the path toward progress.

The Florida Department of Agriculture has contracted a plane to spray pesticide over parts of Orange County after a resident tested positive for West Nile Virus.

As countries around the world experience hotter temperatures, mosquitoes are thriving, which means, more mosquito-borne diseases.

A mosquito control official says the county's last locally acquired case probably was in the 1930s. That change this month when two were reported in Lockhart, in northwest Orange.

State officials say there is no outbreak in the region. The cases were made public days after the Florida Department of Health reported its 10th case since mid-February.

The CDC has a desired immunization rate of 95%, but Florida remains below that at 91% of the population covered, data show.

The county commission plans to use about $4.5 million in leftover money from the American Rescue Plan. Orange would be the first Florida county to do so.

Central Florida saw huge increases in syphilis cases between 2018 and 2022. Experts aren't sure why. Meanwhile, doctors think cases are likely to continue increasing.

A Central Florida mental health service is expanding its operations to the growing concern of mental health crises in children.

The American Muslim Community Clinic mobile clinic provides primary care to the unhoused population in the Orlando area. It continues to see more and more people, but finances are not keeping up.