HIV and AIDS
FILE - Chicago Bulls fans Rob Martinez, left, Mark Kojak and Michael Kojak, right, show their support for the team during a rally in Chicago, June 14, 1991, celebrating the Bulls NBA championship. (AP Photo/Mark Elias, File)
The 1990s: Jordan era takes flight; Magic battles HIV virus

By Brian Mahoney Feb. 23, 2022 02:26 AM EST

US urges world to ensure HIV services for LGBTQ community

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 10, 2021 06:51 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the world’s nations Thursday to ensure equal access to HIV services to those most at risk of...

FILE - This electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows a human T cell, in blue, under attack by HIV, in yellow, the virus that causes AIDS. The virus specifically targets T cells, which play a critical role in the body's immune response against invaders like bacteria and viruses. Colors were added by the source. Some researchers believe COVID-19 has derailed the fight against HIV, siphoning away health workers and other resources and setting back a U.S. campaign to decimate the AIDS epidemic by 2030. (Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer, Austin Athman/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH via AP)
UN urges action to end AIDS, saying COVID-19 hurt progress

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 08, 2021 11:34 PM EDT

FILE - This electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows a human T cell, in blue, under attack by HIV, in yellow, the virus that causes AIDS. The virus specifically targets T cells, which play a critical role in the body's immune response against invaders like bacteria and viruses. Colors were added by the source. Some researchers believe COVID-19 has derailed the fight against HIV, siphoning away health workers and other resources and setting back a U.S. campaign to decimate the AIDS epidemic by 2030. (Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer, Austin Athman/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH via AP)
Experts see strides on AIDS, but COVID-19 halted progress

By Mike Stobbe Jun. 04, 2021 09:44 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2020 file photo, a doctor holds a bag of blood plasma donated by a COVID-19 survivor at at blood bank in La Paz, Bolivia. On Friday, May 28, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that the Red Cross says if you recovered from COVID-19 and had a vaccine, you cannot donate blood plasma because the vaccine wipes out natural antibodies. The Red Cross said the statement is inaccurate, and COVID-19 vaccines do not wipe out antibodies, according to experts. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press May. 28, 2021 02:14 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Illinois

By The Associated Press May. 25, 2021 07:00 AM EDT
Arlington Heights Daily Herald. May 22, 2021. Editorial: Time to pass news literacy bill Let’s start this editorial...

This January 2020 photo provided by the family shows Josselyn Kish of Las Vegas. As a baby, Josselyn suffered rashes, painful shingles and frequent diarrhea, said her mother, Kim Carter. “Day care was calling me a couple times a week to come get her because she was always getting fevers.” After the gene therapy, “she was better right away,” Carter said. Now, “she rarely, rarely gets sick at all” and has been able to recover whenever she has. (Family photo via AP)
AIDS virus used in gene therapy to fix 'bubble baby' disease

By Marilynn Marchione May. 11, 2021 06:00 AM EDT

Steven Ash, 33, works at the tire shop his family owns in Huntington, W.Va., Wednesday, March 17, 2021, and where he overdosed just days before. Ash was 19 when he took his first OxyContin pill and his life spiraled after that. The last year has been particularly brutal. He took more drugs to numb the pain, but it made things worse, a vicious cycle, he said, but he isn't sure how to escape it. He knows he's putting his mother through hell. "I fight with myself every day. It's like I've got two devils on one shoulder and an angel on the other," he said. "Who is going to win today?" (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19

By Claire Galofaro Apr. 08, 2021 01:03 AM EDT

Larrecsa Cox, who leads the Quick Response Team whose mission is to save every citizen who survives an overdose from the next one, peers around a stairwell while walking through an abandoned home frequented by people struggling with addiction, in Huntington, W.Va., Thursday, March 18, 2021. As the COVID pandemic killed more than a half-million Americans, it also quietly worsened what was before it the country's greatest public health crisis: addiction and despair. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19

By Claire Galofaro Apr. 08, 2021 01:02 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Apr. 07, 2021 06:58 AM EDT
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ April 7 The Decatur Daily on vaccine technology: ...

West Virginia to get $2.4M in federal HIV prevention funding

Mar. 19, 2021 04:22 AM EDT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will receive nearly $2.4 million from the federal government to fund HIV prevention and treatment. The state is...

West Virginia. Caption: Solutions Oriented Addiction Response organizer Brooke Parker displays an HIV testing kit Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Charleston, W.Va. The nonprofit group operates health fairs for residents, including syringe exchanges and HIV testing. (AP Photo/John Raby)
CDC: West Virginia HIV wave could be 'tip of the iceberg'

By John Raby Mar. 17, 2021 11:57 AM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2020 file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Fauci won a $1 million award from the Israeli Dan David Foundation for “courageously defending science” during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, the foundation named Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor, as the winner of one of three prizes, saying he had earned it over a lifetime of leadership on HIV research and AIDS relief, as well as his advocacy for the vaccines against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)
Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for 'defending science'

By Laurie Kellman Feb. 15, 2021 11:02 AM EST

A medical staff receives her second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a government Hospital in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
The Latest: Fauci wins $1 million for "defending science"

By The Associated Press Feb. 15, 2021 12:57 AM EST

FILE - In this June 19, 2009 file photo, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon with a picture of the late spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini in the background, during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei was among the first and most powerful world leaders to suggest the coronavirus could be a biological weapon created by the U.S. (Meisam Hosseini/Hayat News Agency via AP, File)
The superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories

By David Klepper, Farnoush Amiri And Beatrice Dupuy Feb. 15, 2021 12:10 AM EST

Correction: Virus Outbreak-South Africa story

Jan. 30, 2021 04:08 AM EST
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In a story January 30, 2021, about the Novavax vaccine, The Associated Press erroneously reported that it has shown about 60% efficacy in...

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2020, file photo, pedestrians walk past Pfizer world headquarters in New York. A U.S. government advisory panel convened on Thursday, Dec. 10, to decide whether to endorse mass use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Australia won't rush Pfizer after homegrown vaccine canned

By Rod Mcguirk Dec. 11, 2020 12:22 AM EST

FILE - In this April 22, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Birx was brought into President Donald Trump’s orbit to help fight the coronavirus, she had a sterling reputation as a globally recognized AIDS researcher and a rare Obama administration holdover. Less than 10 months later, her reputation is frayed and her future in President-elect Joe Biden's administration uncertain. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Trump virus coordinator Birx seeks role in Biden government

By Aamer Madhani And Zeke Miller Dec. 10, 2020 01:24 AM EST

A young man on a bicycle passes a mobile clinic, background left, run by the Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (RHI) in the Soshanguve Township, north of Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 26 2020. The successful trials of a new injectable drug that needs to be taken every eight weeks to prevent HIV infection is being lauded on World AIDS Day as a turning point for the fight against a global health threat that's been eclipsed by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
On World AIDS Day, South Africa finds hope in new treatment

By Mogomotsi Magome Dec. 01, 2020 05:17 AM EST

Sibongile Zulu poses for a portrait inside her home in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Zulu is HIV positive and couldn't get her full medication for two months due to a lack of stock in government pharmacies. Across Africa and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs to many of the more than 24 million people who take them, endangering their lives. An estimated 7.7 million people in South Africa are HIV positive, the largest number in the world, and 62% of them take the antiretroviral drugs that suppress the virus and prevent transmission. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
South Africa's poor scramble for anti-HIV drugs amid virus

By Bram Janssen And Andrew Meldrum Aug. 11, 2020 03:07 AM EDT