On the heels of National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Sept. 27), a new awareness campaign launched by Theratechnolgies – Don’t Take VAT – focuses on the health risks associated with excess visceral adipose tissue (VAT), a type of fat that can affect people with HIV. Many HIV positive people either have no knowledge of…
LOS ANGELES —AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization that currently serves over 486,000 patients around the world each year, today denounced the lack of regulation and pharmaceutical industry greed that has led to record drug prices for specialty medications and billions of dollars in profits for drug manufacturers. Most recently, Turing Pharmaceuticals…
After two and a half years of trials, a new study has found no new HIV infections among a group of people on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), reports HIV Plus magazine. For 32 months, researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco tracked the health of over 600 people as they used Truvada daily…
OAKLAND, Calif. – Today, Transgender Law Center launched the Positively Trans (T+) survey, a first-of-its-kind community-led needs assessment to examine the legal and policy landscape as experienced by transgender women, men, and gender non-conforming people living with HIV/AIDS across the country. The survey is open for responses in English and in Spanish. “As transgender people living…
It’s never too late! A Change.org petition has appeared to help bring legendary diver Greg Louganis to the iconic Wheaties cereal box. Louganis set a diving record in the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles when he won two gold medals. He became the first man to reach 700 in platform diving. Louganis was diving’s…
While many areas of the United States show signs of success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, one region still clearly struggles. Today, Southern states bear the brunt of the epidemic. A full-scale emergency exists, with nearly half (49%) of all new HIV and AIDS diagnoses in the United States occurring in the South. Ongoing obstacles…
In an interview for GLAAD’s video series, GLAAD: All Access, Olympic champion diver Greg Louganis talks with host Claire Pires about the homophobia he experienced, living with HIV, and how he has found a new passion working with Olympic hopefuls. Louganis has won four Olympic gold medals, and no one to date has ever beaten his diving…
Statistics have consistently shown that gay and bisexual men– particularly young, Black men– bear the burden of the HIV epidemic nationally. This is similarly reflected in the state of Florida where 63% of new adolescent HIV infections are among Black men. Saturday, Aug. 1, Equality Florida, the NAACP, Florida A&M University Center for Health Equity, and…
A Missouri man was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for recklessly infecting one sex partner with HIV and risking the infection of four others. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that African American Michael L. Johnson, 23, a former Lindenwood University wrestler was found guilty of five felony charges after testimony that included experts…
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has released its annual report documenting the level of hate violence experienced by LGBTQ and HIV-affected persons in the United States in 2014. The report, Hate Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and HIV-Affected Communities in the United States in 2014, is the most comprehensive report on…
