Why HIV’s quiet crisis among Black and Latina women persists

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first documented AIDS in 1981, women accounted for 8% of diagnoses. By 2001 that figure had climbed to 30%, and today women represent roughly 22% of people living with HIV in the United States. Globally, women account for more than half of all individuals living with the […]
Medicaid cuts in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill act are quietly dismantling America’s health safety net

Medicaid has long been the financial backbone of community health centers, the roughly 17,000 federally funded clinics scattered across the United States. They treat one in seven Americans. They are required by law to see every patient who walks through the door, regardless of ability to pay. For decades, they have been the last line […]