HIV

While a cure for HIV remains elusive, great advancements in prevention and treatment mean people with the virus are living longer, healthier lives.

HIV remains a problem in the U.S. because people don't use life-saving prevention and treatments. COVID is heading down the same path. Here are insights from people fighting on the frontlines of HIV.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country in children, another virus is making kids sick in unusually large numbers: respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV. On Wellness Wednesday we look at what’s behind the surge of RSV.

People were dying of a disease that could be treated — but in poor countries, they did not have access to medicines that could help. That was the story of HIV — and now of COVID-19.

At issue is whether the government can require private nonprofits to denounce prostitution in order to qualify for U.S. foreign aid grants aimed at fighting the worldwide AIDS epidemic.

Federal rules had made such donors wait 12 months before donating. That wait is now three months. The coronavirus outbreak has caused donor centers to be closed and blood drives canceled.

Public health organizations such as the CDC report older individuals are more susceptible to falling seriously ill from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. But so are those with long-term illnesses, such as people who are living with HIV/AIDS. "There is a high risk for patients with HIV whose immunity is compromised," said Dr. Elie Saade, Medical Director of Infection Control at University Hospitals.

During Pence's governorship, an HIV outbreak occurred that some health experts say could have been prevented or lessened with a better response.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he expects senators to take up the plan in the next two weeks.

Columbus City Council will vote Monday to devoting more than $280,000 to HIV prevention efforts. Columbus Public Health received funding from the state as…