HIV Prevention

Monday was national HIV testing day. It’s one day out of the year when local health departments go out to communities and bring awareness of HIV testing and prevention.

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.

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.

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…

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

Thursday, February 7th is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and the Centers for Disease Control say that, although blacks make up just 14% of the…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a preventative drug for HIV. The drug is called Truvada, and though it has been hailed as good news…