A 'fourth wave'of high mortality involving methamphetamine and cocaine use has been
gathering force in the USA. Availability and use of illicit fentanyls are still the major drivers of …

Although fungal infections contribute substantially to human morbidity and mortality, the
impact of these diseases on human health is not widely appreciated. Moreover, despite the …

Background Antiretroviral chemoprophylaxis before exposure is a promising approach for
the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. Methods We randomly …

Background Most sexually active people will be infected with a sexually transmitted infection
(STI) at some point in their lives. The number of STIs in the United States was previously …

Abstract (See the editorial commentary by Lange, on pages 801–802.) For individuals with
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to fully benefit from potent combination …

[198] p.: graphs, maps, tablesThe 2013 report on the global AIDS epidemic contains the
latest data on numbers of new HIV infections, numbers of people receiving antiretroviral …

Background The rate of bacterial meningitis declined by 55% in the United States in the
early 1990s, when the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine for infants …

Background The estimated number of new HIV infections in the United States reflects the
leading edge of the epidemic. Previously, CDC estimated HIV incidence in the United States …

This chapter presents national estimates of several types of sexual behavior among men
and women 15–44 years of age in the United States in 2006–2010, as well as measures of …

Background At the individual level, higher HIV viral load predicts sexual transmission risk.
We evaluated San Francisco's community viral load (CVL) as a population level marker of …