In a report released in May 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognized the state of Iowa for having one of the highest percentages of HIV viral suppression in the country, which allows people living with HIV to reach their best health outcomes. People who sustain an undetectable viral load for at […]
This year marks the centennial of social workers as crucial providers at University of Iowa Health Care. Within the Department of Internal Medicine, social workers have been a part of the care offered people diagnosed with HIV and AIDS for more than two decades. Funded through the Ryan White CARE legislation, our department’s eight social […]
University of Iowa Health Care has been celebrating this year as the centennial of its incorporation of social workers into the care we provide. Healing and maintaining good health has as much to do with the physical as it does addressing the world that surrounds a patient, whether it is helping them achieve stable housing […]
Today is World AIDS Day and here at University of Iowa Health Care we are proud of the decades of care we have provided people living with AIDS and HIV. Four years ago, we profiled the founder and director of the first HIV Clinic in the state of Iowa, Jack Stapleton, MD, and his team’s […]
It is rare for a CME event to have connections to a number of other events happening around the university and Iowa City community, but big anniversaries are rare too. Because the 30th anniversary of the founding of the HIV/AIDS clinic at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics landed in the same month as this […]
“Getting preventive medicine of any kind should not be a burden to anyone,” Dr. Michael Ohl, Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases, said. For about a year and a half, the TelePrEP program Dr. Ohl directs has steadily worked to reduce the barriers between individuals at risk of HIV infection and a drug that dramatically reduces […]
Entering its twenty-ninth year of operation, UIHC’s HIV/AIDS Clinic has grown from a service of the Infectious Diseases Clinic into a multidisciplinary organization serving around 600 patients. Since 1988, more than 2,000 patients have been seen in the clinic. As the primary organizer and Director of the clinic, Dr. Jack Stapleton of the Division of […]