Sunday, the 35th anniversary of the first HIV/AIDS report, President Obama issued a statement honoring the memory of those who lost their lives to the disease. On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report on what would later be understood as the first documented cases of AIDS. The past…
SAN FRANCISCO — The GLBT History Museum has announced it will present a special traveling exhibit beginning April 1, Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/AIDS. Featuring beautiful photographs and other documentation, Dancers We Lost is a comprehensive dance history project honoring performers who died due to complications of HIV/AIDS. The exhibit runs through…
One last reminder to join Lambda Archives this Saturday as they honor some of the women who stepped up in the early days of HIV. Saturday, March 19, 2016, noon San Diego Woman’s Club, 2557 Third Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103 GET YOUR HERE TICKETS NOW! Invite your friends on Facebook here! About the honorees: Wendy…
Hillary Clinton has apologized for remarks she made prior to Nancy Reagan’s funeral on Friday praising in particular Nancy Reagan for starting “a national conversation” on HIV/AIDS. Clinton said, “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan–in particular Mrs. Reagan–we started a national conversation when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about…
SAN DIEGO – With this year’s presidential election underway, San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF) has announced that in addition to supporting local agencies and programs through grants, the organization will be partnering with the San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative to support six consumers living with HIV/AIDS through the national advocacy initiative, AIDSWatch. This is…
Lambda Archives of San Diego, a nationally-recognized nonprofit archive dedicated to the local history of LGBT people, will host the Heroines, Pioneers & Trailblazers awards gala brunch Saturday, March 19 at 12 noon at the San Diego Woman’s Club. The event includes an awards program to honor women, LBTQ and straight, who stepped up and…
Humanity may be on the cusp of the first AIDS-free generation in decades. Research into a cure is progressing at a remarkable pace, and this treatable disease is now being beaten in global hot spots by access to health care and prevention methods. Ranging from high-tech American labs, where the DNA of HIV-positive patients is…
GLAAD released today a public service announcement (PSA) to inspire, inform, and reignite the passion and action needed to beat the HIV and AIDS epidemic once and for all. The PSA, produced by the award-winning Martian Entertainment, was created by GLAAD and The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation as part of an ongoing partnership that launched earlier this…
The POZ Life Weekend Seminar, Sept. 19-20 in San Diego is a free healing and transformational workshop for people with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones. The POZ Life Weekend Seminar is a place where compassion, education,community and love is offered unconditionally. It’s a place HIV+ men, women, youths and family members can come be themselves,…
TUCSON, Ariz. – Calimmune Inc., a clinical-stage gene therapy company, has successfully completed its $15 million Series B financing round, led by a large pharmaceutical company. Alexandria Venture Investments also joined with existing investors including RA Capital Healthcare Fund LP and Translational Accelerator LLC. Proceeds will be used to progress the company’s ongoing HIV/AIDS clinical…
