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Discreetly Tracking Down Sex Partners To Stop A Surge In STDs

Oregon’s Clackamas County, health officials are asking patients with an STD who their sexual partners are — and then are tracking those partners down.

August 30, 2018 HIV/AIDS / Public Health

Increase in new HIV cases in King County among heterosexuals who inject drugs

Public health has identified a cluster of 8 people with HIV infection in north Seattle. All were living homeless and injected or used illicit drugs.

August 22, 2018 Health Policy / HIV/AIDS / Immunology

Religious Conservatives’ Ties To Trump Officials Pay Off In AIDS Policies, Funding

Evangelical activist Shepherd Smith has spent decades cultivating relationships with leading AIDS policymakers to promote abstinence-only sex education.

July 31, 2018 HIV/AIDS / Public Health

Washington joins Undetectable = Untransmittable HIV prevention campaign

U=U: People living with HIV, who have undetectable levels of HIV in their blood, have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to their partners.