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Heather Boerner

Heather Boerner is an award-winning journalist who specializes in storytelling on healthcare issues. She's most interested in how people choose between equally important needs.

Articles

Vivir con el VIH y con movilidad limitada

El envejecimiento y otras condiciones a menudo presentan retos adicionales para las personas con VIH.

Steep But Deceptive Drop in HIV Diagnoses in 2020

HIV diagnoses dropped significantly in the COVID era, but the CDC is not drawing conclusions from that.

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Health Care Access for Trans Women With HIV

Transgender women have the highest rate of HIV in the country, and new data shows which ones are most vulnerable to poor outcomes.

Some Telehealth Programs Still Charge for HIV Prevention Pills

Telemedicine is an increasingly used to provide convenient PrEP services. But are these programs following U.S. guidelines?

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Nation’s First Drug Control Strategy Calls for Expanded Harm Reduction

The White House strategy embraces syringe services, access to housing and naloxone as three science-based approaches.

Triumeq Now Available for Small Children

The approval makes this the first single-pill regimen containing dolutegravir available in a water-dispersible formulation.

Gay Latino Men at Highest Risk for HIV Are Five Times More Likely to Use PrEP

But disparities in access to health care and PrEP are limiting access for young men, who are acquiring HIV at higher rates.

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Income May Be the Biggest Determinant of Whether Women Stay on PrEP

An eight-year review of medical records shows that PrEP persistence is associated with higher income and private insurance.

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COVID-19 101

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Heart Health 101

Need HIV/HCV Therapy Plus Drug Use Treatment? Try a Federal Facility

Pickings for concurrent treatment are slim in Ending the HIV Epidemic rural communities.

Apretude and Oral PrEP Could Decrease New HIV Diagnoses by up to Half

However, the benefit would be less evident in Georgia, the state with the highest lifetime risk of acquiring HIV.

Black and Latino People Have a Higher Lifetime Risk of HIV

Nine out of the 10 areas with the highest likelihood of being diagnosed with HIV are located in the South.

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HIV Prevention Ring Withdrawn From FDA Consideration

The nonprofit that developed the vaginal ring suggests it would be unlikely to get approval in the United States.

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A Majority of Transgender Women With HIV Are Undetectable

Most transgender women with HIV were eventually linked to care, but fewer received care in a timely manner.

Updated Guidelines: TAF In, Cabenuva Out for Pregnant People

New HIV treatment guidelines boost TAF and dolutegravir but warn about Trogarzo and advise against Cabenuva for pregnant people.

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Black and Latino Folks Are Less Likely to Be Referred for PrEP

Clinicians and public health workers are still failing Black and Latino communities when it comes to HIV prevention.

HIV Treatment Means Fewer Orphans Too

A study showed that as HIV treatment expanded, teens lost fewer parents to the virus.