#Mississippi

The state has the lowest proportion of teens who have received the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine.

The “5 Years, 5 Voices” series celebrates the fifth anniversary of Gilead Sciences’ COMPASS initiative to fund HIV efforts in the South.

AIDSVu shows an unmet need for PrEP to prevent HIV among African Americans, Latinos and people living in the South.

Researchers stress funding breast cancer research to include representation of racially and ethnically diverse populations

The Mississippi-based Tractor Supply Company disclosed an employee’s HIV status and ultimately fired her, alleges the lawsuit.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt’s Change the Pattern HIV initiative will launch in Mississippi and focus on Black and brown communities.

The 60 recipients of federal Ryan White funding work to prevent HIV transmission and improve access to care and treatment.

STIs rose in 2020, and these states had the highest rates. Plus: Vaccines against meningitis might also protect against gonorrhea.

How you can join the effort to confront unjust HIV crime laws, protect marginalized communities and end mass incarceration

For answers, check out these nine takeaways from the report “HIV in the U.S. Deep South: Trends From 2008–2019.”

The results of a poll in seven states “are alarming and should hasten our…efforts on viral suppression.” There’s also good news!

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

A closer look at the Deep South’s HIV prevention problem

Southern nonprofit SBPAN launches a new awareness campaign and announces a network advisory council.

A federal case reminds states they’re required to serve people with mental illness in appropriate, integrated, community-based settings.

Grace House, a nonprofit group home for people with HIV/AIDS in Jackson, Mississippi, was broken into on May 19, WLBT reports.