Richard Wolitski Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

9-27-2017Ask 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-threatening infection?”It’s…

9-25-2017Cross-posted from the Department of Health and Human Services' Viral Hepatitis Blog  Summary: Study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found no differe…

9-15-2017New 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 …

9-14-2017Last 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 done…

9-1-2017How do we know our national efforts to fight HIV are working? One of the best measures for answering this question is the annual number of new HIV diagnoses, wh…

8-16-2017According to guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we all should have been tested for HIV at least once in our lives. The National…

8-3-2017Part of the PostTest SeriesRecently, I wrote about some of the ways my own life changed after I was diagnosed with HIV. This week, I want to talk about the expe…

7-28-2017On July 27, 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released what we usually call “the Monitoring Report.” The full name of the report is…

7-13-2017Last month, we observed National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), which raises awareness about HIV testing and encourages people to be tested. All around the country, …

7-10-2017There’s a saying that “what gets measured gets improved.” While that is often the case, we sometimes learn that, despite the efforts of many, the improvem…