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HIV

Tennessee’s new health chief dodges grilling over dropped HIV funding

Blake Farmer

January 25, 2023

Ralph Alvarado

Tennessee’s new commissioner of health made his first appearance before a legislative committee Wednesday, though the Republican chairman warned members not to question Dr. Ralph Alvarado about HIV funding.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: HIV, Jeff Yarbro, Ralph Alvarado

What we know a week after Tennessee rejected federal HIV funding

Blake Farmer

January 23, 2023

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It’s become increasingly clear that Tennessee’s rejection of federal funding for HIV prevention targets Planned Parenthood, which received some of the money for condom distribution. The state also says it plans to keep spending on HIV prevention, but prioritize HIV prevention for victims of human trafficking, first responders, mothers and children.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: AIDS, Bill Lee, HIV

Basic HIV testing and treatment in Nashville is being threatened by an unexplained state funding cut

Blake Farmer

January 19, 2023

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Some basic testing and treatment for HIV could vanish in Nashville after the state decided to stop accepting a big grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Millions of dollars flow through the United Way of Greater Nashville to smaller local nonprofits.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: AIDS, HIV

On this World Aids Day, we look at the legacy of a Nashville advocate for those living with HIV

LaTonya Turner

December 1, 2022

The Calling in the Body
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Much has changed about the prevention and treatment of AIDS, but there’s still work to do. That’s why local artist and health educator Cynthia Harris wrote the play, “The Calling is in the Body.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: AIDS, health, HIV, Nashville, theatre

How Nashville has backtracked on HIV despite effective prevention options

Blake Farmer

November 30, 2022

AIDS Walk

The South represents more than half of all new HIV cases in the U.S., and the region is making slower progress than the rest of the nation, according to the latest HIV/AIDS figures kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Filed Under: Health Care Tagged With: AIDS, Aima Ahonkhai, Healthcare, HIV, Joseph Interrante, Nashville Cares

Pandemic to pandemic: 41 years of AIDS

Anna Gallegos-Cannon

November 30, 2022

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December 1 is Worlds AIDS Day. In this episode, we’ll talk with people living with HIV and those who have been on the frontlines providing services and education to battle AIDS in Middle Tennessee since the early days of the virus. We’ll also look at how our understanding of the AIDS epidemic provided a bedrock of understanding when COVID-19 took off. 

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: DCS, Department of Chidren's Services, HIV

Nashville’s largest HIV prevention clinic ends testing program amid national funding shortfall

Blake Farmer

November 18, 2022

Nashville’s largest clinic that offers a daily pill to prevent HIV is cutting back its services. So-called “PrEP” clinics have warned they may be run out of business over changes from drugmaker Gilead, which produces HIV medication.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: HIV, Metro Public Health Department, PrEP

‘This is not a death sentence’: Advocates want Tennessee to reexamine its HIV criminalization laws

Anna Gallegos-Cannon

August 9, 2022

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In Tennessee, people with HIV risk criminal charges if they don’t disclose their diagnosis, and advocates say it’s time for those laws to change.

Filed Under: Health Care, News Hits, WPLN News Tagged With: HIV, University of Memphis

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