Tag: HIV

Earlier this week, we got a very loud reminder that state elections matter at least as much as federal elections. A Republican state representative...

Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) have resigned in protest of the White House’s failure to support their work. When the...

Earlier this week, the vice presidential candidates faced off in a debate. Most of the topics brought up were about foreign policy. One important...

The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is recruiting volunteers to test its HIV vaccine. OHSU is also working on vaccines for tuberculosis, malaria, and hepatitis...

California will now approve organ donors and allow transplants between HIV positive individuals, according to Medical Daily. Governor Jerry Brown signed the Senate Bill...

In a small Indiana town, a combination of poverty and lack of social services has had heartbreaking consequences. In Austin, Indiana, there have been...

Vanity Fair's documentary "When Aids Was Funny" unearth's previously unheard tapes from press briefings when questions about AIDS and HIV prompted hysterical laughter and homophobic taunts from Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes. Prepare to be angry.

Tinder is back in the news today with a recent report saying the app is directly related to a syphilis boom. First Rhode Island...

  There was a time when acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was compared to the Holocaust. Thousands of young, healthy people suddenly succumbed to rare,...

Shalandra Jones of Detroit, Michigan, has finally received some justice. Jones was awarded $40,000 in a settlement on August 31 for the way she...

An Australian judge has imposed a ban which prevents a woman from breastfeeding her infant son for a reason that has many advocates for...

As I've mentioned several times, the easiest way to prove the religious right is lying when it claims it's just standing up for the...

A study by the Guttmacher Institute has revealed that sex education in the U.S. is dangerously lacking, and even shockingly non-factual and non-scientific in...

We live in an amazing world where we learn new and fascinating information every day. We recently discovered a new species of dinosaur, NASA...

WBTV is reporting that a Montgomery, Alabama church has been rocked to the core after their now former pastor confessed from the pulpit that...

Straight from a horror movie for all parents, a 15-year-old-girl was infected with HIV after chat line encounters with an older Texas man began...

An Arkansas public school district has removed three students from the education system on the idea that those students may or may not be...

There's actually a president more uncaring about people with HIV/AIDS than late former President Ronald Reagan. South African Thabo Mbeki refused to acknowledge the...

The benefits of improving access to insurance through private or public means outweigh the risks of having persons living with HIV or AIDS uninsured.

"The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one." -Tom Hanks Over this past year, a total of four confirmed...