Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

On Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern[1]. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries in Africa. The disease had previously caused a global outbreak from 2022 to 2023.

Mpox – previously called monkeypox – isn’t a new disease. The first confirmed human case was in...

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In the U.S., Hispanic women have been disproportionately affected[1] by the HIV epidemic in recent years. Yet they’ve been less likely to take advantage of PrEP, a medication that significantly reduces the risk of getting HIV[2].

So we created a pilot intervention[3] to inform more people about the medication by adding it to an existing and proven HIV-prevention program aimed at heterosexual Hispanic women. All of the...

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