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Children who lost parents to AIDS are finding community in a group called the Recollectors.
An essay on relevance as a long-term survivor in the here and now.
In recognition of June as LGBT Pride Month this issue includes other sometimes underrepresented LGBT-related perspectives.
In the Feature “Two of a Kind” (March 2015), Ademola Bello profiled a transgender couple living in New York City who are transcending HIV...
A new CEO urges Gay Men’s Health Crisis to increase grassroots activism and fight for an HIV cure.
Jean Carlomusto on ACT UP lesbians, DIVA and her Larry Kramer documentary
Guess how many recurring characters on all of television are HIV positive.
We love to hear the word cure, and few organizations talk about it with as much zeal as amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
HIV services have always been a cornerstone of Manhattan’s LGBT Community Center.
“Everyone’s story of living with HIV is unique.” That tagline appears before each video on “Positive Spin,” the new HI...
Why didn’t Reagan address AIDS in a public speech until 1987?
Nancy Duncan contracted the virus in 1985, from a boyfriend she knew had injected drugs in the past.
Positive Pedalers cycle toward a 20-year milestone.
When lawmakers in Rhode Island tried to pass a bill to criminalize the behaviors of people with HIV, advocates from the Positive Women’s Netwo...
Why needle exchanges are needed in Indiana and Wisconsin
This edited excerpt of an opinion piece titled “When Visibility Is Not Enough,” explores the social, economic and health inequities trans peop...
An international panel of medical experts has released new guidelines on managing declining bone density among people with HIV.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two new combination tablets that each include an existing protease inhibitor that is...
Twelve weeks of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s daclatasvir and Gilead Sciences’ Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) offered a 97 percent hepatitis C virus cure rate...
In a recent Phase III trial, 12 weeks of treatment with Gilead Sciences Harvoni cured hepatitis C virus in 96 percent of people who were co-in...
According to a new study, when the HIV-negative partner in a mixed-HIV-status heterosexual couple takes Truvada as PrEP, this provides a highl...
Taking a daily dose of the antibiotic doxycycline may be an effective form of pre-exposure prophylaxis against various bacterial sexually...
Scientists have created a powerful molecule that blocks SIV (HIV’s simian cousin) from infecting monkeys’ immune cells and that may work as a...
Attempts to cure HIV are frustrated by the fact that the virus enters a latent, non-replicating state in certain immune cells, becoming invisi...
Research has buoyed recent legal complaints that certain Obamacare marketplace health plans discriminate against people with HIV by placing an...
Living with HIV can be pretty hard sometimes, which is why it’s important to find support and encouragement when you’re feeling down.
Khafre Abif is the editor of Cornbread, Fish and Collard Greens: Prayers, Poems & Affirmations for People Living with HIV/AIDS, a 616-page...
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