HIV/AIDS

“Gifted”: When HIV Was a Death Sentence, and Worth It to Get Housing

In the early 1990s, there was a joke people would make about HIV transmission. “AIDS: The gift that keeps on…

June 27, 2024

We’ll Know Harm Reduction Is Mainstream Once Dr. Fauci Likes It

In 2018, the syringe service program (SSP) in Cabell County, West Virginia, was shuttered by the local health department. By…

November 27, 2023

Learning to Do HIV Peer Education in the ’90s, by Unlearning What to Say

In the summer of 1992, a few weeks after I'd learned I had HIV, I was down at the local…

August 24, 2023

People Who Inject Drugs and Harm Reduction: a Global Perspective

Approximately 15 million people inject drugs, according to the best available evidence—equivalent to three in every 1,000 people on the…

August 17, 2023

FDA Blood Donor Ban Ends for Gay Men, While Staying in Place for Others

On August 7, the Red Cross implemented a new blood donor eligibility assessment that doesn't discriminate against men who have…

August 7, 2023

Project to Set Up 100 Harm Reduction “Vending Machines” Across Canada

Vending machines are increasingly being deployed to distribute harm reduction supplies in North America. As Filter has reported, they’re being…

February 6, 2023

The Barriers to PrEP Uptake Among People Who Inject Drugs

Since 2012, medications designed to protect people from contracting HIV have been hard at work. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), as they're…

November 17, 2022

New Jersey Harm Reduction Set to Grow After Atlantic City Legal Battle

A lawsuit between Atlantic City and a local syringe service program (SSP) may be nearing its end. The city has…

September 22, 2022

Santa Monica Lawmakers Bid to Stop Syringe Distribution in Parks

Lawmakers in Santa Monica, California are trying to stop sterile syringe distribution in public parks,  restricting it largely to brick-and-mortar…

September 13, 2022

“Where They’re At”—Harm Reduction in Rural America

On a warm winter night, a small group of harm reduction workers in Charleston, West Virginia, stuffed the trunk of…

August 23, 2022