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09-27-2017Ask yourself this question: How long would I want to wait to see a doctor if I was told I had HIV or another potentially life...
Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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When it Comes to Curing Hepatitis C, Your Health Care Provider May Not Need to Be A Specialist 09-25-2017Cross-posted from the Department of Health and Human Services' Viral Hepatitis Blog Summary: Study published in Annals of Int... - Blog
New HIV Diagnoses: Large Improvements In Some Groups Overshadow Results for People and Places Being Left Behind 09-15-2017New HIV diagnoses are on the decline in the United States. Our previous blog in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) Indicator series showed that from 2010 to.… - Blog
Working Together To Get the Word Out About Research Showing Viral Suppression Prevents HIV Transmission 09-14-2017Last week, after I had completed my final task at the 2017 U.S. Conference on AIDS in Washington, D.C., I felt good about the variety of work that had been don.… - Blog
New HIV Diagnoses are on the Decline 09-01-2017How do we know our national efforts to fight HIV are working? One of the best measures for answering this question is the annual... - Blog
Knowledge of HIV Status is on the Rise 08-16-2017According to guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we all should have been tested for HIV at least... - Blog
Latest Data Signals Progress Towards National HIV/AIDS Strategy Goals, But More Work Required 08-04-2017Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services... - Blog
Leave Your Problems on the Dancefloor: A Four-Year Journey from Diagnosis to HIV Care 08-03-2017Part of the PostTest SeriesRecently, I wrote about some of the ways my own life changed after I was diagnosed with HIV. This week... - Blog
New Release: CDC Monitoring Report and the NHAS Indicators 07-28-2017On July 27, 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released what we usually call the Monitoring Report.... - Blog
A Lifelong Journey with HIV is Easier without the Extra Baggage: The PostTest Series 07-13-2017Last month, we observed National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), which raises awareness about HIV testing and encourages people to be t... - Blog
Reaching the Target: Creating Positive Change in our National HIV Indicators 07-10-2017There s a saying that what gets measured gets improved. While that is often the case, we sometimes learn that, despite th... - Blog
Stories Have an Impact 06-09-2017As a result of our interactions with our partners and stakeholders, HIV.gov recognized the importance of stories in raising aware... - Blog
They Lived to Fight Another Day: Honoring HIV Long-Term Survivors 06-05-2017June 5th marks the day when the first report of what would come to be known as AIDS was published in 1981. That is why we chose... - Blog
New OMH Funding Opportunity: Empowered Communities for a Healthier Nation Initiative 06-01-2017Improving the health of racial and ethnic minority persons is a core focus of what we do in our HIV and viral hepatitis policies and programs, given the dispro.… - Blog
Looking To The Future: HIV & Viral Hepatitis In The API Community 05-29-2017Sometimes, I wish for a little more silence (i.e., peace and quiet) in my life. We re so connected to our social networks, to w... - Blog
Less Talk, More Action: Southern Leaders Meet with CDC to Address HIV Disparities in the South 05-23-2017Why did it take us so long to focus our attention on the disparities experienced in the South? Was it that AIDS was first identif... - Blog
Interconnected, Intertwined, and Colliding: Co-Occurring Epidemics of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Opioids 05-17-2017I have to admit it. I ve been feeling a little daunted about how much ground we have lost to the opioid epidemic, as we struggl... - Blog
Getting In Sync On HIV, Hep C, And LGBT Health 05-03-2017Last week, along with other federal leaders, I had the opportunity to address the 2017 Synchronicity Conference. It is a national... - Blog
Finding Strength, Taking Action: National Transgender HIV Testing Day 04-18-2017We all have more strength within us than we realize. We often become aware of those strengths when we are tested by the hard time... - Blog
Southern Voices: Speaking Out about HIV in the Deep South 04-12-2017Let s face it, I don t get out very much. I spend most of my time sitting behind a desk or in a conference room. That s why...