National HIV Testing Day is around the corner.

Designated to occur each June on the 27th many organizations locally including AIDS CARE have events planned throughout the month. 

This year AIDS CARE will celebrate testing day on June 28th from 11am-2pm with HIV testing as well as other health screenings ...

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Addiction is taboo and in most families not spoken of openly. Like mental illness addiction is stagmatized to the point where we have pushed our friends, family, and neighbors into a place where they often suffer from addiction alone until something breaks and the addiction comes out into the open ...

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May is National Hepatitis Awareness Month.

A disease of the liver Hepatitis impacts people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds. Common forms of Hepatitis include A,B, and C.  Currently a vaccine exists for Hepatitis A and B. 

No vaccination is available for the most serious Hepatitis C but there ...

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Canada has partially lifted its ban on gay men donating blood.

In a move that is a half step away from being appropriate Canadian officials are allowing gay men to donate blood. 

The one hitch is that they may not donate blood if they have actively had sex with another ...

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I found a follow up to a rather interesting survey done among HIV positive dutch gay men.  The paper provides more data to the study originally presented at a 2011 conference.
The survey conducted among 212 men studied what role viral load played in the choice to have unprotected sex ...

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One of the latest and greatest iPhone apps aims to find out exactly if you really do need that magnum or super-size condom.  Dubbed “Condom Size” it turns your iPhone into a tool for measuring length and girth of your own “tool.” 

At first glance this app might measure up ...

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Each June National HIV Testing Day takes place across the country. During the month of June many organizations take part either on June 27th or a day close to the actual testing day. 

AIDS CARE will be holding their annual event on Friday June 22, 2012 from 10 a.m ...

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There continues to be much public debate within both the medical, general public, and those infected with HIV about the availability of a rapid home HIV test kit.  The FDA is in final approval stages and at this time it looks likely that a rapid test kit will be made ...

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We are approaching the one year anniversary of the passage of Marriage Equality in New York State. 

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law on June 24th, 2011 ending years of struggle and enabling couples to legally marry in New York and share the same rights as heterosexual couples ...

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April is STD Awareness Month. Sexually Transmitted Diseases such as Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and Syphilis are infections that are commonly overlooked and untreated.

Gonorrhea and Chlamydia are often confused and sometimes people are diagnosed as having both infections at the same time.

Gonorrhea symptoms in men include pain during urination, a ...

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