Timothy Dean says concerns about stigma and discrimination keep people in his rural, sugar-growing town from visiting the local clinic. MISHA FRIEDMAN
IN FLORIDA—It’s a Tuesday afternoon in April, and doctors at the adult HIV/AIDS clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami face their usual onslaught of…
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Rose Kough and her 6-week-old baby received antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. MISHA FRIEDMAN
NIGERIA—On a January morning, 12-year-old Yusuf Adamu slumps in his father’s lap, head pressed against his chest. Infected at birth with HIV, he is tiny…
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Yulia Vereschagina packs up anti-HIV drugs at her St. Petersburg home that she shares with others as part of a "reserve pharmacy." MISHA FRIEDMAN
Status symbol In 2015, Pavel Lobkov, a news anchor on TV Rain, an independent station in Moscow, confronted a predicament unlike any he had faced…
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Maria Jacovleva (left), who directs the nongovernmental organization Candle, does HIV testing at a St. Petersburg vegan bar, Animal.
Photographs by Misha Friedman In 2015, a dermatologist in Russia’s fourth largest city, Yekaterinburg, diagnosed Katia with herpes. “I had no idea what it was,”…
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“Risk compensation” may lead people who try a new HIV prevention strategy to abandon condoms.
When seat belt laws went into effect, some studies suggested drivers became more likely to speed or drive recklessly—a phenomenon called “risk compensation.” Is the…
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Virginijus Šikšnys VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
Late in the afternoon on 30 May, biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys received a phone call that is the stuff of a scientist’s dreams: The Norwegian Academy…
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A long-running Ebola blood study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that sets up makeshift labs in remote parts of the country will join the vaccine trial underway.
During an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus like the one underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), research necessarily takes a back…
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Screening for Ebola will be particularly difficult at ports in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a major city that has one confirmed case. BRYAN DENTON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Ebola outbreak underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is still too limited in scope to warrant a Public Health Emergency of…
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Health care workers at Bikoro hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo get sprayed with disinfectant after leaving a quarantined Ebola treatment unit. JOHN BOMPENGO/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH
The first ever effort to use a vaccine to stop an Ebola outbreak in its initial stages is taking shape in the Democratic Republic…
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