Anal cancer screening among men who have sex with men with HIV aged 35 years and older appeared cost-effective and could decrease anal cancer incidence and mortality, according to research published ...

Increased PrEP usage is linked to decreased HIV diagnosis rates, with a notable decline from 13.0 to 10.6 per 100,000 over a decade. State-level PrEP coverage significantly impacts HIV diagnosis rates ...

Among heterosexuals, poverty — not race — was associated with higher prevalence. In 2008, the CDC first published HIV incidence estimates that were based on directly measured recent infection ...

African American MSM exhibit the highest prevalence (CDC, 2005b) and incidence (CDC, 2001) of HIV infection, with Latino MSM exhibiting the next highest rates.

The disproportionate rates of HIV prevalence (CDC, 2005 a,b) and incidence (CDC, 2001) in African American MSM compared to other MSM is puzzling in light of their lower rate of MSM risk behavior.

It also reflects a deeper problem in medicine and public health: the assumption that queer sex is inherently dangerous. This ...

After also adjusting for the competing risk for mortality, the use of NRTIs was linked to a reduced risk for AD in the VA cohort only (aHR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.46-0.85).

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use ...

Removed pages included key CDC information on the rate of HIV diagnoses, breakdowns of infections by race and gender, and the probability of HIV transmission by various forms of sex.

Also missing from the CDC’s website was the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which tracks trends in tobacco use, teen pregnancy, unsafe sexual behavior and other aspects of teen health.

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, a national survey system that collects various habits on teenagers as well as their gender identity, is also down. The CDC's "HIV Risk Reduction Tool ...