• As the nation marks Black HIV / AIDS awareness day today, public health experts in Central Florida are focused on education. A new project will explore how HIV prevention and treatment can better meet the needs of Black women in Orange County.
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• The Wolfsonian Museum hosted a lecture last night about the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV epidemic of the 1980s.
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• The department is offering free in-person testing for Orange County residents at three Orlando sites this week.
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• The scientists believed that the HVTN-702 vaccine would protect people from infection. But the trial was halted this year. Here’s why — and what comes next.
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• April is STD awareness month, and the Florida Department of Health is offering free STD testing at locations across the state. Chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV cases are all on the rise in Florida.
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• A bipartisan bill that would have expanded needle exchanges throughout the state died in the Florida House last spring, but there are calls to resurrect it during the new legislative session.
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• People who use illegal intravenous drugs or who have unprotected sex with multiple partners should get tested at least once a year. That’s according to Dr. Kevin Sherin, director of the Department of Health in Orange County. He says the test is quick.
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