Continuing an annual tradition, the AntiViral Research Center (AVRC) at University of California, San Diego is offering 250 free weekend passes to the 2015 San Diego LGBT Pride Festival for persons who undergo free, confidential HIV testing. The program is part of an on-going study to detect early and acute HIV infections in the community….
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., — A new CDC study that combines three years of data to produce nationally representative estimates characterizing HIV-infected adults receiving care in the U.S. shows that those who identify as transgender women are significantly less likely to adhere to anti-HIV medication regimens and to achieve viral suppression. In addition, they have higher…
WASHINGTON — With mounting evidence that many public and private health plans are deliberately rationing care for Americans with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), those on the front lines in fighting viral hepatitis and HIV/AIDS have urged lawmakers to overturn state Medicaid and managed care policies that discourage testing, add prior authorization requirements on clinicians,…
This article was originally published at HIV Foundation.com How countries such as the United States posits its foreign assistance policies tend to have a direct impact on sexual and reproductive health rights and other human rights needs of women and girls throughout the world, especially those in the developing countries. This was more than evident…
NEW YORK – The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade agreement currently being negotiated among 12 Pacific Rim countries, threatens the future availability of affordable generic medicines and could undermine the global HIV response in developing countries, according to a new report released by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. By expanding intellectual property…
Tuesday, Thomas Miguel Guerra was sentenced to six months in jail. If that doesn’t concern you, it should. The developing narrative is that Guerra hid his status from a partner as a step toward intentionally, and with disturbing delight, infecting his partner with HIV. According to NBC 7 San Diego, Judge Katherine Lewis, who delivered…
A day after the news broke that Assurant Health Insurance would no longer cover the drug Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent contracting HIV, the company has reversed that decision. Mary Hinderliter, Assurant Health vice president of communications emailed LGBT Weekly today with the following statement, “We are reversing our decision and will be…
A national health insurance campany has announced that it will no longer cover the drug Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent contracting HIV. The insurance company, Assurant Health, have notified customers who had been taking Truvada (comprising the antiretrovirals tenofovir and emtricitabine) as PrEP, reports POZ.com. The insurer has stated that it would end…
A gay man was sentenced Monday to 180 days in jail for his no contest plea of spreading HIV to a former boyfriend despite his assertion in court Monday that he had informed the victim of his HIV status before they had sex. Thomas Miguel Guerra, 30, was dressed in a suit before San Diego…
A judge April 13 set sentencing for May 11 for a 30-year-old gay man who pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spreading HIV to a former boyfriend. Thomas Miguel Guerra, of San Diego, faces a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, said his attorney, James Fitzpatrick. The probation…
