Heather Boerner
Scientific American
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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What the Science on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Kids Really Shows
Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people’s health → Read More
To Halt HIV, Advocates Push For PrEP Outreach To Black Women
In 2013, not quite a year after the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Truva → Read More
To Halt HIV, Advocates Push For PrEP Outreach To Black Women
After gay and bisexual men, black women are the group at highest risk for HIV transmission. Here's how women are teaching each other about the most effective ways to prevent infection. → Read More
After Prison, Many People Living With HIV Go Without Treatment
When people living with HIV walk out of prison, they leave with up to a month's worth of → Read More
After Prison, Many People Living With HIV Go Without Treatment
When HIV-positive people leave prison, they often lose access to medical care and the drugs that suppress the virus. It's a missed opportunity in the fight against HIV, public health advocates say. → Read More
Mapping How The Opioid Epidemic Sparked An HIV Outbreak
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Mapping How The Opioid Epidemic Sparked An HIV Outbreak
In visualizations published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, dots and lines define the constellations of Indiana's HIV outbreak. → Read More
Mapping How The Opioid Epidemic Sparked An HIV Outbreak
When people started to show up to Dr. William Cooke's primary care office in Austin, Ind., in 2014 with HIV, Cooke knew it was probably related to the → Read More
Mapping How The Opioid Epidemic Sparked An HIV Outbreak
Researchers knew the HIV outbreak in the small town of Austin, Ind., was related to IV drug use. Mapping how the virus mutated over time revealed its path — and how it might have been stopped. → Read More
The HIV Drug Half a Million Women Need
Truvada activists were shocked when vocal critic Larry Kramer changed his tune. With a lack of campaigns for people other than gay men, there is a long way to go. → Read More
This Story Made an Insurance Company Cover AIDS Drugs
Can you trust your insurance company’s drug formulary? Robert Shore thought he could. He was wrong. → Read More
Even After Obamacare, It’s Still Way Too Hard To Get HIV Meds
Seeking a better, safer sex life, people are using open enrollment to switch their health plans to ones that bring Truvada in reach. If only it were that simple. → Read More
Coming Out Kinky to Your Doctor, in Black and Blue
As more people embrace their inner kinkster, doctors need to know the details to provide quality health care. This… can be complicated. → Read More
Dissed By Her Doctor for Wanting HIV Protection
A pill that can give women control over their bodies and sexual choice is coming under criticism for encouraging risky behavior. Sound familiar? → Read More