Teenager Controls HIV Infection Without Drugs for More than 12 Years
CNN A French teenager infected at birth with HIV has shown the ability to control levels of the infection in her body — without being on antiretroviral treatment. The finding…
Routine screening key to fighting Florida HIV epidemic
Jonathan Appelbaum, M.D., My View | Tallahassee Democrat The recent HIV outbreak in Indiana demonstrates that an apathetic approach to HIV testing and treatment can have devastating consequences. Saturday is…
Transgender Women Vulnerable to HIV
By Nadege Green | © Health News Florida Florida’s transgender community, specifically trans women, are among the groups most at risk of contracting HIV. The series, HIV In Florida: The…
The Face of HIV/AIDS: Then and Now
Tyler Curry, Huffington Post Ever wonder what your life would be like if you were born at a different time? As a man living with HIV, it is something I…
New Big Bend Cares Medical Facility Coming to Tallahassee
Big Bend Cares is soon to bring the latest in HIV/AIDS management and care to Tallahassee with the construction of a new, patient centered, medical home. The new facility will…
HIV/AIDS Kills People in Florida More Than Anywhere Else
By Ray Downs, Broward Palm Beach New Times The Centers for Disease Control released a map that shows where it rates of the “most distinctive” cause of death in each…
UC Santa Cruz Professor Develops HIV Vaccine
Kara Guzman, Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ >> For 30 years, UC Santa Cruz professor and vaccine developer Phil Berman has been chasing a moving target — the insidious, ever-changing…
Featured Artist Series: Barbara Psimas
We’re making Artopia 2015 our best ever! Our partners at 7Hills Communications are producing several videos featuring some of the artists that support Big Bend Cares and Artopia. Artist Barbara…
UNC-Chapel Hill, GSK partner to find cure for HIV/AIDS
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading global public research university with significant expertise in HIV basic and clinical research, and GSK, a global, research-based pharmaceutical and…
Experimental AIDS Vaccine Targets Hidden Virus
WebMD News from HealthDay By Randy Dotinga, HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, April 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Preliminary research suggests that an AIDS vaccine in development can ramp up the body’s…