The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hear evidence about whether to allow the prescription of Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP). This means HIV negative individuals (i.e. people who do not have HIV) who engage in high risk sexual behaviors such as, unprotected anal sex, would regularly ...

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The New York State Court of Appeals is currently hearing a case where the prosecutor hold the opinion that Saliva from an HIV infected person should be treated as a deadly weapon. You can read the full text of the article here. 

The case stems from an incident where an ...

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As a part of LGBT Health Month, on Thursday, March 22 we screened We Were Here:  The AIDS Years in San Francisco at the Little Theatre on East Avenue.  The screening was free and open to the public, and was followed by a panel discussion consisting of Stanley Byrd of ...

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The Health Resources and Services Administration announced this will they will have two types of grants available. Both grants announced by the Obama administration will focus on HIV positive transgender women of color. This is particularly important because the data collected from the report Injustice at Every Turn: A Report ...

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Today Reverend Alicia Heath-Toby will share with us an excerpt from her essay "What Would Jesus Do?: The Care of the LGBTIQ Communities in the Face of HIV/AIDS." Rev. Alicia Heath-Toby, hails from New York City. For the last 18 years, she and her wife, Saundra "Ms. Honei" Toby- ...

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December 1st is World AIDS Day.  This is a celebratory day reflecting upon lives lost and battles won in the fight against the HIV virus.  The theme for this year which runs until 2015 is Getting to Zero:" Zero New HIV Infections. Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS Related Deaths.  A ...

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I found this very poignant interview of a gay man who descended into the world of escorting and drug use.  As he mentions in the interview it all started as a way to make ends meet after the loss of a job.  He was trying to prevent himself from becoming ...

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This Monday the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a recommendation that youth ages 16-18 years old should be screened for HIV even if they do not indicate they are sexually active and live within a population where more than 0.1% of the population is believed to have HIV ...

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Looking for something to do this evening after work or being out in this awesome fall weather? Tonight at 6:30pm ImageOut is presenting We Were Here a film about the early days of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. It weaves together a number of different stories from the time ...

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Looking for something to do this evening after work or being out in this awesome fall weather. Tonight at 630pm ImageOut is presenting We Were Here a film about the early days of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. It weaves together ...

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