SEATTLE — From the files of the strange and unusual comes news that a company has manufactured the first bacon condom. J & D’s Foods, a maker of all things bacon, has announced that one of America’s favorite breakfast foods – bacon- will be the basis for the next product to roll off their production…
BY DR. GRANT COLFAX, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy Successful implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (the Strategy) requires ongoing collaboration among Federal, state, and local governments and key non-governmental stakeholders. As part of our ongoing efforts to support Strategy implementation, ONAP is convening community discussions across the United States. Discussions are focusing…
SAN DIEGO — Dining Out for Life® San Diego has expressed deep gratitude to San Diego’s Mission restaurants, who recently announced that all three of its locations – North Park, East Village and Mission Beach – would donate 100 percent of their day’s sales to the event. “HIV is an issue that hits close to…
SAN DIEGO – Thursday, March 21, Dining Out for Life® San Diego will host its Food Truck Fierceness kick-off party in the parking lot of The San Diego LGBT Community Center, 3909 Centre St., from 5-8 p.m. Hundreds of people are expected to turn out for an evening that will feature some of San Diego’s hottest…
A La Mesa man has been charged with grand theft, impersonating a retired physician and treating two patients with AIDS and cancer who later died following unusual treatments. Keith Allen Barton, 51, posted $100,000 bond in late January after being charged with five felonies in which he is accused of claiming to be a physician…
Imagine you’re a young transgender man or woman without insurance and need hormone therapy. Or you’re a lesbian who has lost her job with health benefits and has discovered a lump in her breast. Or you’re a gay man living on the streets and need HIV monitoring and medications. Who do you turn to? Where…
Alicia Keys wants to change the way people think about HIV. Keys has taken up the issue of women and HIV in America, from who it affects to what a life with HIV can look like to how everyone can make a difference.
Being Alive San Diego will hold an enormous yard sale Saturday March 16 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. at their offices at 4070 Centre Street. The yard sales are conducted with donated items from clients and people in the community. The yard sale proceeds will go to Being Alive’s Food Bank, called Daniel’s Pantry. With…
(CNN) — The case of the first toddler ever to be “functionally cured” of HIV could have wide-ranging effects on the global fight to end the AIDS epidemic. “If we can replicate this in other infants … this has huge implications for the burden of infection that’s occurring globally,” said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a pediatrician…
(CNN) — Science has come a long way since HIV was identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are some of the most memorable moments in AIDS history. 1981 June 5, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes the first mention of what later is determined to be HIV. The report…
