National Domestic Violence Awareness Project

pozmagazine:

Four months into the global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, people living with HIV continue to ask about their risk for acquiring the virus and developing severe illness.

Reports to date from various cities indicate that people with HIV are not testing positive for the coronavirus at high rates, and most of those who have are doing well. This had led some to wonder whether HIV-positive people—as well as HIV-negative people taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—might somehow be protected.

Early reports from China, where the outbreak first emerged late last year, indicated that people with compromised immune systems are more likely to become seriously ill with COVID-19. This led some to suggest that people living with HIV might be more susceptible.