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Patient satisfaction surveys fail to ask whether the patients experienced discrimination or received culturally competent care.

While encouraging HIV testing, prevention and treatment among gay and bisexual men, #NGMHAAD 2022 also raises awareness of monkeypox.

Latinos have seen a striking decline in COVID deaths while white people account for a larger proportion.

How one dermatologist is shaking up beauty standards and representation in skin care

The program was developed to support innovative, non-traditional ways to address disparities in MPX vaccination.

“I am living proof that early detection can save lives,” Tigerlily CEO Maimah Karmo said at the NCCN cancer policy summit.

For the first time, gay and bi men who don’t inject drugs accounted for less than half of new cases in San Francisco.

Information and resources catering to their identities may address disparities and help LGBTQI+ people better navigate cancer care.

Some fear the monkeypox response is not being prioritized because the virus affects gay men, especially those who are Black or Latino.

The Cancer Cabinet was formed to mobilize all levers of the federal government to end cancer as we know it.

Medical Monitoring Project finds most are receiving HIV care and treatment, but many face challenges such as poverty and unstable housing.

Nearly 123,000 cancer deaths, or close to 30% of all U.S. cancer deaths, were due to cigarette smoking in 2019.

Most people in a pilot program at a safety-net HIV clinic achieved viral suppression on the long-acting injectable regimen.

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

Gilead Sciences, the Morehouse School of Medicine and Xavier University boost HIV care for Black Americans in a COVID-impacted South.

Left untreated, hepatitis C can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and the need for a liver transplant.