Tag: AIDS
HRC to North Carolina Rep. Larry Brown: Apologize for Your Hateful and Extremist Statements
Yesterday in an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal, North Carolina State Representative Larry Brown said “the government should not spend money to treat adults with HIV or AIDS who ‘caused it by the way they live.”
Gay Ski Week Comes to Telluride Feb. 26-March 5
When the famed Telluride AIDS Benefit Fashion Show takes the runway during Telluride’s Gay Ski Week in March, it will be in large part due to Mountain Lodge at Telluride.
Gay Groups Laud Shift In AIDS Strategy
Gay groups are cheering the Obama administration’s just-announced AIDS strategy. The report, announced Tuesday in Washington, outlines a strategy for combating the AIDS epidemic by shifting resources to the disease’s highest at-risk groups, which include gay and bisexual men and African-Americans.
Insurance executive says banning gay men from giving blood is unfair
Mike Enos used to roll up his sleeve and donate blood with his co-workers. But that stopped years ago after he was ushered behind a privacy curtain at an office blood drive and told his blood wouldn’t be accepted ever.
World AIDS Day action alert: Call your senators today!
Mother-to-child transmission can be prevented. Call your senators to voice your support for programs to protect these innocent children.
The Institute of Women’s Health of North America Increases its Outreach by Offering Free and Confidential HIV Testing in Florida
We are well into the third decade of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic and yet, with all the effort and resources expended, the rate of HIV infection remains high particularly in the minority population.