August 9, 2024

PrEP, a key HIV prevention tool, isn’t reaching Black women

PrEP is a crucial tool in the fight against the ongoing HIV epidemic, but systemic factors pose major barriers to access for Black women. Alexis Perkins thought […]
August 9, 2024

Montana’s Plan To Curb Opioid Overdoses Includes Vending Machines

HELENA, Mont. — Before she stopped using drugs for good, Cierra Coon estimates that she overdosed eight times in a span of two weeks in the fall […]
August 9, 2024

PrEP Can Prevent HIV Infections, But Most Women Don’t Know They Can Take It

It’s estimated that only “about 30% of the people who should be on PrEP are on PrEP and of them in the U.S., only 7% of […]
August 9, 2024

CareFirst Foundation Unveils Groundbreaking “HM305” Project: Empowering Communities Through Integrated Health Prevention Strategies

CareFirst Foundation Unveils Groundbreaking “HM305” Project: Empowering Communities Through Integrated Health Prevention Strategies. In a bold move set to redefine community health initiatives, CareFirst Foundation has […]
August 9, 2024

Project 95: Empowering Health, Ending HIV

Project 95: Empowering Health, Ending HIV The CareFirst Foundation is thrilled to introduce “Project 95,” a groundbreaking initiative that tackles the HIV epidemic with a holistic approach to […]
August 4, 2024

7th person likely ‘cured’ of HIV in a remarkable case

A seventh person has essentially been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant nearly a decade ago, doctors announced Thursday. The 60-year-old unidentified German […]
August 4, 2024

LA County increased access to an opioid antidote 500% in 3 years. Is that why overdose deaths leveled off?

People in Los Angeles County now have access to naloxone — the medication that can reduce the effects of an opioid overdose — in more places […]
August 2, 2024

THE DOJ BLOCKED A TENNESSEE HIV CRIMINALIZATION LAW. STATE LAWMAKERS KEEP PUSHING BACK

In May, the federal government and Shelby County, Tennessee, reached a landmark settlement stopping the local prosecutor from enforcing a law that discriminates against people living […]
August 2, 2024

How harm reduction advocates are working to prevent fentanyl overdose deaths

It’s been eight years since Doug Griffin lost his 20-year-old daughter Courtney to a fentanyl overdose. Her story, and Griffin’s loss, were featured during President Joe […]