Tag: HIV

Gay men’s health charity GMFA has launched a new video campaign shining the spotlight on men living with HIV. The video, Living With HIV, features eleven gay men who are living with HIV and still living their lives to the fullest – without allowing stigma to affect their lives. In the clip, the men discuss how HIV hasn’t stopped them from living their dreams – whether that is through the career they wanted, the sports they play, the people they love...

Michael Johnson, a.k.a. “Tiger Mandingo,” the former college wrestler sentenced to 30 years in prison for “recklessly infecting” multiple partners with HIV, has penned a heartbreaking letter from solitary confinement. Though the black, gay, 24-year-old had an attorney seemingly unfit to defend him, and a jury pool stacked with white, HIV negative heterosexuals who thought being gay was a sin, he was still sentenced to 30 years in prison and will be forced to register as a sex offender upon release. Blogger Michael Petrelis has...

Legacy Community Health in Houston has been working on a citywide campaign called END (Ending New Diagnoses) of HIV/AIDS, which aligns with Hillary Clinton's strategy announced this week. In response to the news, Legacy senior director of communications Kevin Nix wrote on the company website, "Given Houston’s challenges with the epidemic, Legacy is rededicating ourselves to the fight by taking this year to develop a citywide 'End the Epidemic' strategic plan, thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation and AIDS United,...

She was so out-of-touch with reality, it was baffling. UPDATE: Clinton tweeted the following apology just hours after making her comment. The original story appears below Clinton's tweet. https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/708403247795539968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw PREVIOUSLY: Hillary Clinton seems to need some reminding about what happened in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The Democratic presidential candidate made polarizing, inaccurate - not to mention offensive - comments on Friday about the role that the Reagans, specifically Nancy Reagan, played in combatting the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Speaking to MSNBC...

In another ground breaking move, Gilead Sciences are giving thousands access to the new HIV prevention pill, called PrEP. These tests are currently being run in New South Wales, Australia and include participants mostly from France and Canada. Trials are run completely double blind, meaning that participants do not know if the drugs they are taking are PrEP or placebos and neither do the doctors! This allows the results to be seen as realistically as possible since there is no...