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“I worry for my patients,” says a researcher at the Chicago CORE center. The pause also affects trials for cancer, COVID and mpox.

Chicago’s Black, Latino and white populations saw declines in new cases of HIV and AIDS in 2020. However, STIs are on the rise.

The growing monkeypox outbreak is increasingly mirroring the disparities of the HIV epidemic.

COVID-19 paired with treatable chronic diseases has led to the lowest life expectancy for Black and brown Chicagoans in decades.

One study in June linked 16 percent of COVID-19 cases in Chicago and across Illinois to Cook County Jail.

It’s part of a $234 million federal initiative to improve COVID-19 testing among vulnerable populations.

A modeling study projected the impact of various strategies for improving PrEP use among young Black gay and bi men in Illinois.

A $3.5 million grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago will help researchers find out.

Community groups in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, DC, will produce needed research and data.

The Black AIDS Institute and VOCAL-NY show support for the actor/singer.

Six different mental wellness providers will receive $100,000 in grant monies from the Chi-Town hip-hop star as part of the pledge.

The Salt-N-Pepa track gets an HIV prevention twist, thanks to Howard Brown Health.

Yes, says the Chicago Urban League in a new paper outlining the grim toll of heroin and other opioids on the Black community.

Six men in Chicago have contracted meningitis since June. One has died; all of them are men who have sex with men (MSM); and black MSM are at...

Why some favor targeted HIV prevention in specific areas

The Windy City slapped five pharmaceutical companies with a lawsuit for promoting and selling prescription opiods, despite knowing their healt...