HIV

Republican senator files SB 94 to repeal the law preventing people under 21 from buying long guns A Republican State Senator, Randy Fine, has proposed repealing a law that prevents people under age 21 from...

Listen: HIV diagnoses among Black women in Pinellas County have more than tripled since 2021. Human immonodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight infection. It makes a...

Listen: A St. Petersburg nonprofit is spreading the word about HIV prevention and treatments as diagnoses are rising in Pinellas County. HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus,  is an incurable, life-threatening virus that damages the body’s...

Florida now leads the country in percentage of prisoners living with HIV, according to a new study. WMNF's Chris Young reports.

The Florida Health department in Citrus County will observe World AIDS Day with free HIV testing at the health office in Lecanto County.

The Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County will offer no-cost walk-in HIV testing to the public at five clinical locations from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, June 27. Those locations are: St....

Free HIV testing in Pinellas this Wednesday and Saturday; World AIDS Day.

The virus that causes AIDS is spreading in Florida faster than in any other state; so you’d think lawmakers would encourage people to get tested and know their HIV status. But Alejandro Acosta, the HIV...

By Rob Lorei Today on Radioactivity we listen back to the latest Florida This Week, a political discussion show on local PBS station WEDU that is moderated by Rob Lorei. This episode’s panel of political experts...

The number of HIV infections and cases of AIDS is increasing in Florida and in the Tampa Bay area. Michael Ruppal, the executive director of the AIDS Institute, says that in Hillsborough County 6,000 people...

$10 million to fund HIV patients in Hillsborough County

Florida HIV infection rates have increased recently in two groups: gay and bisexual males, and African-American females. WMNF’s Josh Holton reports from today’s National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS conference at the University of South...