Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite highly effective HIV prevention drugs on the market, only a fraction of those at risk in the U.S. are taking them — or ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly effective new HIV-prevention medication, Gilead Sciences reported Wednesday. In clinical trials, the drug nearly eliminated HIV’s spread among ...

A couple of years ago, Matthew Hurley got the kind of text people fear. It said: "When was the last time you were STD tested?" Someone Hurley had recently had unprotected sex with had just tested ...

Yeztugo (lenacapavir) is more than 99.9 percent effective at protecting at-risk people from HIV — but for many, accessing the drug may be a challenge. Yeztugo (lenacapavir) is the first and only ...

Doctors at DAP Health have begun administering a new twice-a-year injectable HIV prevention medication, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June. Gilead's drug lenacapavir ...

The tool can be used to find providers that offer HIV testing and medications that prevent the virus, which causes AIDS.

Medications have kept Tori Samuel’s HIV at bay for decades. The part-time worker from Ocala, Florida, has thrived, marrying ...

A newly approved medication to prevent HIV infection that can be injected twice a year is being hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against HIV/AIDS. "It is a wonder drug," said Rama Rao Amara, an ...

In this Oct. 7, 2019, file photo, a pharmacist displays the HIV prevention drugs Descovy, left and Truvada, right, at a pharmacy in Sacramento, Calif. A proposed federal policy aims to protect older ...

UVA Health researchers say drugs used to treat HIV could help prevent a million new cases of Alzheimer’s each year – and they want clinical trials to find out. UVA’s Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati and his ...