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08-22-2025Are you ready to strengthen your syphilis screening strategy? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health, is announcing a new…
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Addressing Liver and Cardiovascular Disease among People with HIV and HIV Prevention During Pregnancy: Dr. Dieffenbach’s Second Update from CROI 2024 03-06-2024On Tuesday at the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), HIV.gov spoke with NIH’s Dr. Carl Dieffenbach about research on common… - Blog
January is Cervical Cancer Prevention Month 01-24-2022January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. For women with HIV, the observance is an important reminder of their greater risk of cervical cancer and the… - Blog
CDC’s New #ShesWell Initiative Aims to Increase PrEP Awareness among Women and Their Healthcare Providers 08-23-2021CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together (Together) campaign recently launched a new initiative called #ShesWell, which is focused on increasing awareness about Pre… - Blog
Communicating About the Impact of HIV and AIDS on Women and Girls 03-03-2021March 10, 2021 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). The HHS Office on Women’s Health (OWH) leads this awareness day and works with the… - Blog
New HRSA Funding Opportunities 04-28-2020HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau recently announced five Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) for initiatives on HIV stigma reduction, implementing rapid ART… - Blog
NIH Study Finds Lower Concentration of PrEP Drug in Pregnant Young Women 03-09-2020Cross-posted from NIAID NewsroomAmong African adolescent girls and young women who took HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) daily, levels of the PrEP drug… - Blog
NIH-Funded Clinical Trial to Test PrEP, Dapivirine Ring for Safety in Pregnant Women 02-13-2020Cross-posted from NIAID NewsroomThe first clinical trial specifically designed to test the safety of the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring in pregnant women has… - Blog
HIV Treatment Advances and Other Final HIV Research Updates from the 2019 IAS Conference on HIV Science 07-25-2019Advances in HIV treatment options and studies on HIV prevention for women and girls were among the highlights yesterday at the 10th International AIDS Society… - Blog
Most Women Use Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention in Open-Label Study 07-23-2019Cross-posted from NIAID NewsroomNIH-Supported Research Explored Tool to Expand HIV Prevention Choices for WomenIn an open-label study of women in southern and… - Blog
PrEP Use Among Young African Women 07-23-2019Cross-posted from NIAID NewsroomInnovative Adherence Strategies Needed to Support Long-Term Usage, NIH-Funded Study SuggestsIn a study of open-label Truvada as… - Blog
ECHO Study 06-21-2019The results of the Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes, (ECHO) Study — which ran from December 2015 through October 2018 — were announced… - Blog
Research Update: HIV Prevention and Treatment among Women and Girls 03-01-2019The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently shared news on two studies underway that are exploring HIV prevention and treatment issues specifically for… - Blog
Supporting Girls to Fulfill their DREAMS 10-12-2018Cross-posted from U.S. Department of StateOn the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief… - Blog
Research Highlights Wrap-up from AIDS 2018 with NIH’s Dr. Carl Dieffenbach 07-27-2018We wrapped up HIV.gov's series of conversations with Carl Dieffenbach, Ph.D., about scientific highlights from the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS… - Blog
Recent HIV News from FDA 05-30-2018The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently shared several HIV-related updates. In case you missed them, we are re-capping them below:On May 14, 2018,… - Blog
Anti-HIV Drug Combination Does Not Increase Preterm Birth Risk, Study Suggests 05-01-2018Cross-posted from NIHA drug combination aimed at preventing transmission of HIV from a pregnant woman to her fetus likely does not increase the risk for… - Blog
Say It Digitally: HIV Prevention Starts with Me 03-07-2018To foster communication for the March 10th observance National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, (NWGHAAD). HIV.gov has rounded up a selection of digital… - Blog
More HIV Research Highlights from CROI 2018 (Videos) 03-07-2018Our coverage from the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston continued yesterday with three interviews with Federal HIV… - Blog
High Uptake and Use of Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention Observed in Open-Label Study 03-06-2018Cross-posted from NIAID NewsroomNearly 90 percent of participants in an open-label study of a vaginal ring infused with a drug to prevent HIV are using the…