HIV Aids
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California’s Condom Removal Law: What to Know
In early October, California became the first state in the United States to make it a crime to remove a…
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When Being Gay Was a Mental Illness
The award-winning documentary Cured tells the riveting, powerful, but little-known story of a small group of activists who battled for…
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Helping People Living With HIV Get Their High Blood Pressure Under Control
Diagnosed with HIV in 1994, A. (who asked to withhold her identity) doesn’t really have an issue with her virus.…
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John Nkengasong, Ph.D., Is Biden’s Pick to Fill the Long-Empty Role of U.S. Global AIDS Czar
In June, we reported that PEPFAR, the $7 billion U.S. global-AIDS relief program started by President George W. Bush in…
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Are Health Centers Needlessly Prescribing Pricey Descovy for PrEP Because They Get a Government Kickback?
“I’m very proud that we’re doing the honorable thing here.” Those are the words of Alex Gonzalez, M.D., M.P.H., the…
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Bill Arnold, Who Quietly Helped Create the Crucial ADAP Program for Free HIV Drugs, Dies at 83
The work of some HIV/AIDS activists—such as the late Larry Kramer and his ACT UP comrades—was hard to miss because…
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“We Already Know How to End the HIV Epidemic”
Prior to assuming leadership of NAESM, a nonprofit health organization based in Atlanta that advocates for Black gay men, Alvan…
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Activists Pressure Rich Nations to Break Patents for Global COVID-19 Vaccine Equity
If you follow global COVID-19 vaccination rates, you’ll notice that it’s generally wealthy (or at least middle- or mixed-income) countries…
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An Interview With Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Seattle-based Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is probably best known as the author of Sketchtasy , a hyperkinetic novel about being young…
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5 Ways to Create Better Sexual Communication With Your Partner
It’s no secret that talking about sex is not easy. We have no language for sex. We aren’t taught about…
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