HIV

Community Voices producer Dave Barber has the story of a local doctor and the support groups who emerged to play important roles in battling AIDS when it first surfaced in the Miami Valley region in the 1980s.

Sheila Muhammad tested positive for HIV more than 30 years ago and her life quickly changed. But as the years passed, attitudes and treatments of HIV changed. Muhammad spoke with Side Effects Public Media about the power in education and understanding of the virus.

The CDC reported the first case of HIV 40 years ago. Since then, health officials and advocates learned much more about the virus and how to prevent it. But Black women are being infected at unusually high rates. Outreach organizations are working to change that.

In many Midwest states it’s illegal for someone with HIV to have sex without telling partners about the illness. Some public health experts are pushing...

In the West, many think of HIV/AIDS as a phenomenon that began in the 1980s, when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly disease. In reality,…

For many Ohio children living with HIV and AIDS, a special annual summer camp has meant a chance to escape, a time to get away, have fun and connect with…

When Ronson Rowley was a teen, he said he used to sneak into a nightclub called the Ten Bar. “It was the only black gay club here in Indianapolis,” he...

In the mid 1990s, summer camps for kids affected by the AIDS epidemic sprang up all over the country. Today there are about 20 summer camps for kids who…

Health officials in Dayton are putting their support behind an HIV prevention drug out on the market. Once used to treat HIV positive individuals, the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state says three organizations have received more than $1 million in federal funds to provide housing assistance and limited…

Today is World AIDS Day (WAD), and it’s estimated that more than 20,000 people in Ohio are infected with HIV—about 2000 of those cases are here in the…

This week, health officials hope to hope to raise awareness about the importance of HIV prevention and education, particularly within the region’s Latino…