Iris Sidikman, harm reduction program coordinator for Women's Health Center of West Virginia, speaks during a public hearing July 2023 about the former abortion clinic's bid to offer syringe services ...

The opioid epidemic in the United States (U.S.) has been coupled with increases in blood-borne infections, including viral hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can be spread through ...

Vol. 135, No. 1S, Supplement 1: Using Public Health Policy to Reduce the Morbidity, Mortality, and Incidence of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis (July/August 2020) ...

As of 2023, Orange County remains the largest county by population in the United States without an operational syringe services program (SSP). Over 40 years of evidence have demonstrated that SSPs are ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Staff at Women's Health Center of West Virginia know what it's like to provide controversial health services that government officials have sought to ban or restrict. The ...

The science is solid. The politics are more partisan than ever. While COVID-19 raged in the United States, a set of public health crises was pushed to the background. HIV and drug use flourished ...

AUSTIN, Ind. (WDRB) -- Ten years ago, the small city of Austin gained national attention for an alarming reason: an unprecedented HIV outbreak linked to intravenous drug use and needle sharing. At the ...

Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for West Virginia News Service reporting for the KFF Health News-Public News Service Collaboration More than three years have passed since federal health officials ...